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Rosita

#3,633 in 2025Girls' name

Diminutive of Rosa

Rosita has been given to 6,726 babies in the U.S. since 1888. In 2025 it ranked #3,633 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1966, with 138 recorded.

Babies named Rosita, 2025

1 in 78,900

Rosita over time, 1880–2025

Girls
05010015018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Rosita: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Rosa

Spanish

What Rosita means

Rosita is a diminutive of Rosa.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Rosita → Rosa. The family’s meaning is “rose”, recorded in English with the source elements rosa.

Origin, language, and formation

Rosita is used in Cebuano, Dutch, Spanish and Tagalog. Its origins include Spanish.

Rosita comes through Spanish Rosita.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Rosa.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Dutch, Rosita is pronounced /ˌroːˈzi.taː/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 6,726 girls were recorded with the name Rosita between 1888 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 138 in 1966; its best national rank was #784 in 1935.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #5,457 in 2020 to #3,633 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #5,797 in 2015 to #3,633 in 2025.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Rosita?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 78,900
42 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 38,300
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#3,633
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
54,713 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Rosita 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 2025 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 54,713 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Rosita. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Rositas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Rosita was born before 1960 — so the typical Rosita is around 65 today.

Median birth year
1960
About 65 years old
Biggest decade
1950s
18.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
10.9%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
4,698
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Choose a decade

1950s — 18.3% of all recorded uses (1,228).

Is Rosita 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
+726
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,824
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+2,164
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.83×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
30.4%
Peak was 1966 (138)
Years since peak
59
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
22.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#784
1935

Spellings of Rosita

Rosita is not the most common spelling — Rita is, with 41.9% against Rosita's 0.99%.

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.

Where Rosita is used

Across 1910–2025, Rosita was most concentrated in Hawaii — about 1 in 4,000 girls, against 1 in 30,517 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

025 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Hawaii1 in 4,000
  2. 2New Mexico1 in 4,167
  3. 3Arizona1 in 7,692
  4. 4Texas1 in 11,111
  5. 5California1 in 20,000
  6. 6New York1 in 20,000
  7. 7Illinois1 in 50,000
  8. 8New Jersey1 in 50,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Rosita has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Rosita around the world

Where Rosita 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.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #5,927
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    1966–1987
    #488
    in 1987
  • France
    1900–2024
    #5,315
    in 2024
  • Canada
    2018–2018
    #2,940
    in 2018
  • South Australia
    1944–1994
    #716
    in 1994

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Rosita

People whose public names include Rosita, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Rosita in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Rosita. Linked forms have their own page here.

RosaRozitaRosetta

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Rosita by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#3,633
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,824
Best rank ever
#784
1935
Peak year
1966
138 that year
First recorded
1888
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
6,726
Count in 2025
42

Names similar to Rosita

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

RosinaRosalitaRosanaRoslynRosaliaRosarioRossieRosaleeLupitaLolitaRoselynRosannaMaritaRosanneSaritaRoseanneRoseannRosalbaRosellaRoseannaRosalinaRosariaRosauraNikita

Names with a curve like Rosita

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Rosita, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

CarleenTwylaJoycelynEvonneMimiMaritaAletaRoseanneJannetteJeanettaBarbraCarlotta

Sibling names for Rosita

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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