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Rossella

Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded; Italian origin

Rossella has been given to 34 babies in the U.S. since 1980. 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 2021, with 7 recorded.

Babies named Rossella, 2021

1 in 484,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Rossella: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded; Italian origin

Italian

What Rossella means

Rossella is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Rossella is used in English. Its origins include Italian.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 34 girls were recorded with the name Rossella between 1980 and 2021. Its highest annual count was 7 in 2021; its best national rank was #11,719 in 1980.

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 Rossella?

Rossella had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2021, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2021
1 in 484,000
7 of 3,389,958 births
Among girls only
1 in 234,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2021
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
335,678 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Rossella 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 2021 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 335,678 children born in 2021 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Rossella. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Rossellas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Rossella was born before 1990 — so the typical Rossella is around 35 today.

Median birth year
1990
About 35 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
32.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
50.0%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
34
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 32.4% of all recorded uses (11).

Is Rossella 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
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2021 (7)
Years since peak
4
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Very steady
0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#11,719
1980

Spellings of Rossella

Rossella is not the most common spelling — Rosella is, with 61.3% against Rossella's 0.13%.

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.

Rossella around the world

Where Rossella 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
    2007–2007
    #5,201
    in 2007
  • France
    1962–1964
    #1,838
    in 1964
  • South Australia
    1951–1957
    #581
    in 1957

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

Rossella 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
#11,719
1980
Peak year
2021
7 that year
First recorded
1980
Last recorded
2021
All-time count
34
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Rossella

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

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Sibling names for Rossella

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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