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Rossana

#16,784 in 2025Girls' name

Form of Roxana

Rossana has been given to 892 babies in the U.S. since 1954. In 2025 it ranked #16,784 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1956, with 43 recorded.

Babies named Rossana, 2025

1 in 663,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Rossana: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Roxana

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Rossana means

Rossana is a form of Roxana.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Rossana is used in Italian.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ros.ˈsa.na/ for Rossana.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Rossana → Roxana → Ῥωξᾱ́νη. The family’s meaning is “lamp”, recorded in Ancient Greek with the source elements lŭ́khnos.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Roxana.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Italian, Rossana is pronounced /rosˈsa.na/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 892 girls were recorded with the name Rossana between 1954 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 43 in 1956; its best national rank was #1,629 in 1956.

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 Rossana?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 321,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#16,784
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Rossana 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 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Rossana. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Rossanas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Rossana was born before 1974 — so the typical Rossana is around 51 today.

Median birth year
1974
About 51 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
25.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
9.3%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
892
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Choose a decade

1960s — 25.2% of all recorded uses (225).

Is Rossana 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
11.6%
Peak was 1956 (43)
Years since peak
69
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
41.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,629
1956

Spellings of Rossana

Rossana is not the most common spelling — Roseann is, with 24.2% against Rossana's 1.4%.

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 Rossana is used

Across 1910–2025, Rossana was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 148,519 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 100,000
  2. 2New York1 in 100,000
  3. 3Florida1 in —
  4. 4Texas1 in —

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. Rossana has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Rossana around the world

Where Rossana 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
    2002–2002
    #4,137
    in 2002
  • France
    1956–1983
    #3,165
    in 1983
  • Canada
    2019–2019
    #3,370
    in 2019
  • South Australia
    1957–1980
    #634
    in 1980

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, 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. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Rossana by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#16,784
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#1,629
1956
Peak year
1956
43 that year
First recorded
1954
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
892
Count in 2025
5

Names similar to Rossana

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

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Sibling names for Rossana

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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