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Rosy

#3,762 in 2025Girls' name

Rosy, through Rose

Rosy has been given to 2,208 babies in the U.S. since 1882. In 2025 it ranked #3,762 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2018, with 59 recorded.

Babies named Rosy, 2025

1 in 82,900

Rosy over time, 1880–2025

Girls
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Rosy: meaning, origin, and history

Rosy, through Rose

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Rosy means

Rosy belongs to the name family reached through Rosy → Rose → רויז. Its meaning is “rosy”.

Origin, language, and formation

Rosy is used in English and Spanish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Rose, Rosie and רויז.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Spanish, Rosy is pronounced /ˈrosi/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,208 girls were recorded with the name Rosy between 1882 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 59 in 2018; its best national rank was #801 in 1882.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #3,729 in 2020 to #3,762 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #3,121 in 2015 to #3,762 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 Rosy?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 82,900
40 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 40,200
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#3,762
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
57,449 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Rosy 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 57,449 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Rosy. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Rosys were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Rosy was born before 1998 — so the typical Rosy is around 27 today.

Median birth year
1998
About 27 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
20.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
46.0%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,686
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 20.8% of all recorded uses (459).

Is Rosy 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
−436
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−33
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−641
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.74×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
67.8%
Peak was 2018 (59)
Years since peak
7
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
17.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#801
1882

Spellings of Rosy

Rosy is not the most common spelling — Rose is, with 29.8% against Rosy'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.

Where Rosy is used

Across 1910–2025, Rosy was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 84,087 across all states with data. It was least common in Oklahoma (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 50,000
  2. 2Texas1 in 50,000
  3. 3Florida1 in —
  4. 4Georgia1 in —
  5. 5New York1 in —
  6. 6Oklahoma1 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. Rosy has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Rosy around the world

Where Rosy 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
    #2,440
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2020–2020
    #765
    in 2020
  • France
    1933–2025
    #3,303
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #3,457
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1964–2011
    #840
    in 2011

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS 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.

Notable people named Rosy

People whose public names include Rosy, 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.

Rosy by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#3,762
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 33
Best rank ever
#801
1882
Peak year
2018
59 that year
First recorded
1882
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,208
Count in 2025
40

Names similar to Rosy

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

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Names with a curve like Rosy

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

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Sibling names for Rosy

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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