Rosine

Girls' name

Diminutive of Rose

Rosine has been given to 365 babies in the U.S. since 1899. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1919, with 15 recorded.

Babies named Rosine, 1961

1 in 828,000

Rosine over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Rosine: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Rose

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Rosine means

Rosine is a diminutive of Rose.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Rosine is used in French.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ʁo.zin/ for Rosine.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Rose.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 365 girls were recorded with the name Rosine between 1899 and 1961. Its highest annual count was 15 in 1919; its best national rank was #1,268 in 1899.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Rosine?

Rosine had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1961, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1961
1 in 828,000
5 of 4,142,426 births
Among girls only
1 in 404,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1961
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
574,263 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Rosine sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1961 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 574,263 children born in 1961 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Rosine. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Rosines were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Rosine was born before 1928 — so the typical Rosine is around 97 today.

Median birth year
1928
About 97 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
24.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
27.7%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
32
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Choose a decade

1920s — 24.9% of all recorded uses (91).

Is Rosine rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1919 (15)
Years since peak
106
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
37.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,268
1899

Spellings of Rosine

Rosine is not the most common spelling — Rose is, with 46.2% against Rosine's 0.03%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Rosine around the world

Where Rosine ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • France
    1900–2022
    #3,736
    in 2022
  • South Australia
    1944–1968
    #679
    in 1968

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Rosine by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#1,268
1899
Peak year
1919
15 that year
First recorded
1899
Last recorded
1961
All-time count
365
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Rosine

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

Sibling names for Rosine

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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