Rosie
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Meaning
rose flower; nickname-style for Rose
The story
Rosie is the nickname that earned its own certificate, Rose said with rolled-up sleeves, and its record is a full American century: about 14,400 girls in the 1920s alone, a fixture through the 1940s, when a riveter with this name became the poster of working women everywhere, then the long vintage fade to a floor of about 1,200 in the 2000s. The return is running: about 3,300 in the 2010s and already 4,950 so far this decade, past the full 2010s with years to run. All-time it counts about 84,100 girls, and the family maps neatly around it: Rose, the source, is a giant at about 491,600, and Rosalie, the sister who came back first, runs almost even with Rosie herself, about 83,600 girls to 84,100, a century-long dead heat. The flower is the inheritance; the -ie is the wink.
The formal names behind Rosie
Rosie is an established short form of each of these names.
Rosemary · English origin · compound of Rose and Mary, also the herb name
Rosalie · French origin · elaboration of Rose, from Latin "rose flower"
Rosa · Latin origin · rose; famously borne by civil rights icon Rosa Parks, forever carried in American memory
Rose · Latin origin · rose flower
Rosie across languages
One shared root links 8 names across 4 languages.
Shared root: the medieval name arrived as Norman Roese/Rohese, a Germanic name from hrod "fame", early merged with Latin rosa "rose"; the flower sense has long since taken over
The constellation
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How popular is Rosie around the world?
In the United States, 4,950 babies were named Rosie between 2020 and 2025. In Scotland, 167 girls named Rosie were registered in 2024, the 16th most common name among girls that year.
Rosie is on the official records of the United States, Scotland, Ireland, England and Wales, South Australia, New South Wales, New Zealand, Canada, France, Austria, Poland, Spain and Brazil.
United States
1 in 4,400
In the United States, 4,950 babies were named Rosie between 2020 and 2025.
Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Rosie peaked in the 2020s.
Births with a Social Security record. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration
Scotland
1 in 270
In Scotland, 167 girls named Rosie were registered in 2024, the 16th most common name among girls that year.
share of that year’s name registrations
Births registered in Scotland; different spellings count separately but accents are merged at source, and any spelling under 3 in total is suppressed. Source: National Records of Scotland, babies' first names
Ireland
1 in 370
In Ireland, 145 girls named Rosie were born in 2025, the 23rd most common name among girls that year.
share of that year’s name registrations
Exact registered spellings from Irish vital statistics; any name under 3 in a year is withheld at source, and accented spellings (fadas) are recorded reliably only from 2018. Source: Central Statistics Office (Ireland), Irish babies' names
England and Wales
1 in 440
In England and Wales, 1,343 girls named Rosie were born in 2025, the 24th most common name among girls that year.
share of that year’s name registrations
Birth registrations in England and Wales (not the whole UK); exact spellings are counted separately, and any spelling under 3 in a year is withheld at source. Source: Office for National Statistics, baby names in England and Wales
South Australia
1 in 8402017
In South Australia, 22 girls were registered as Rosie in 2017.
share of that year’s name registrations
Births registered in South Australia (not all of Australia) by first name and year of registration, 1944–2017, from the state’s Births, Deaths and Marriages registry, which publishes every name down to a single birth in capitals; a spelling its export repeats inside a year is counted once, and from 2018 only a top 100 is published, so the series ends at 2017. Source: Consumer and Business Services (South Australia), popular baby names
New South Wales
#84 · 2025
In New South Wales, 85 girls named Rosie were registered in 2025, ranked 84th in that year’s top 100 for girls.
share of that year’s top-100 registrations
New South Wales (not all of Australia) publishes only each year’s 100 most popular names per sex, so a missing year means below that top 100, not rare. Source: NSW Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages, popular baby names
New Zealand
1 in 1,300
In New Zealand, 46 girls named Rosie were registered in 2025.
share of that year’s name registrations
First given names from New Zealand birth registrations, grouped by registration year; any name under 10 in a year is excluded at source. Shares divide by Stats NZ’s count of births registered to mothers living in New Zealand, under 1% below the registry’s own count. Source: Department of Internal Affairs (New Zealand), baby name popularity over time
Canada
1 in 2,300
In Canada, 162 girls named Rosie were born in 2024, the 167th most common name among girls that year.
share of that year’s name registrations
First given names from provincial and territorial vital statistics across Canada; any name-sex-year under 5 is excluded at source, and small Quebec counts carry a randomized adjustment made at source. Shares divide by Statistics Canada’s count of live births for the year; the 2024 count is preliminary. Source: Statistics Canada, first names at birth (table 17-10-0147-01)
France
1 in 6,100
In France, about 105 girls named Rosie were born in 2025, the 467th most common name among girls that year.
share of that year’s births on record
Births in France by year of birth, from INSEE’s fichier des prénoms (1900–2025; Mayotte from 2012); exact spellings count separately (Léo and Leo are different names), any spelling under 3 in a year and sex is withheld at source, every count is rounded to the nearest 5 at source, and nametree keeps the spellings that reached 20 in some year. Shares divide by INSEE’s count of births in France from 1957, and before that by the file’s own total for the year; INSEE says the file is not complete before 1946. Source: Insee, fichier des prénoms (last updated 2026-07-16)
Austria
1 in 9,500
In Austria, 8 girls named Rosie were born in 2025, the 566th most common name among girls that year, spellings that differ only by special characters counted together.
The count never rose above 8 in a year, too few to chart.
Live births in Austria by year of birth, 1984–2025, from Statistik Austria’s first-name statistics; spellings that differ only by special characters are counted together (umlauts stay apart), every name down to a single birth is published, and the count covers babies with Austrian citizenship only until 2009, every baby from 2010, and from 2015 also births abroad to mothers living in Austria. Shares divide by Statistik Austria’s count of live births from 2010, and before that by the file’s own total for the year. Source: Statistik Austria - data.statistik.gv.at (OGDEXT_VORNAMEN_1, updated 2026-07-09)
Poland
1 in 120,000
In Poland, 2 girls named Rosie were born in 2025, the 706th most common name among girls that year.
The count never rose above 7 in a year, too few to chart.
First names given to children born in Poland by year of birth, 2000–2025, from the PESEL population register (Ministry of Digital Affairs); exact spellings count separately (Łukasz and Lukasz are different names), names given fewer than 5 times in a year were left off the list through 2012 and fewer than 2 times from 2013, and the register also counts children born abroad, so its yearly sums run above Poland’s live births. Shares divide by the register’s own published total for the year, never by births. Source: Ministry of Digital Affairs, PESEL register (dane.gov.pl)
Spain
1 in 790,000
In Spain, 57 residents are named Rosie, ranked 12,468th among women, with a mean age of 37.7 years.
Residents of Spain on 1 January 2025. Spain publishes how old a name’s living bearers are, not a birth series, so there is no year chart. Source: INE (Spain), Censo de Población anual, 1 January 2025
Brazil
1 in 1M
At the 2022 census, 163 people in Brazil were named Rosie, ranked 29,376th, with a median age of 50.
Among people named Rosie living in Brazil at the 2022 census, more were born in the 1960s than in any other decade.
people alive at the 2022 census, by decade of birth
People alive and resident in Brazil at the 2022 census, a living-population count, not births; names under 20 are withheld at source. Source: IBGE, Censo Demográfico 2022
Argentina
last on record 2018
Rosie is not on the 2024 record for Argentina, where small counts are withheld at source.
The count never rose above 2 in a year, too few to chart.
Given-name components of births in Argentina 2012–2024; national cells are lower bounds and no sex split is published. Source: RENAPER (Argentina), Dirección Nacional de Población, given names 2012-2024
Mexico City City
last on record 2021
Rosie is not on the 2022 record for Mexico City, where small counts are withheld at source.
The count never rose above 4 in a year, too few to chart.
Civil-registry acts in Mexico City by registration year. Counts are lower bounds (names under 6 in a month and borough are removed at source) and count name-instances, not people; compound names are split, so “Maria Jose” counts under each part. 2023, a partial extract through 3 Mar with no cell on record for this name, is excluded. Source: Registro Civil of Mexico City, open data portal, registered given names 2000-2023
Montevideo City
last on record 1971
Rosie is not on the 2011 record for Montevideo, whose registry withholds nothing, so the spelling was not given there that year.
The count never rose above 1 in a year, too few to chart.
Births in the department of Montevideo (not all of Uruguay) by first name and year of birth, 1940–2011, from the city’s civil registry, which writes names in capitals, almost always without accents; counted as spelling groups (accent and punctuation variants merged), nothing is withheld at source, and 2012 is excluded as a partial year. Source: Servicio de Registro Civil, Intendencia de Montevideo, Partidas de Registro Civil de Montevideo (Licencia de Datos Abiertos - Uruguay); 2012 dropped as partial
Not on the record in Puerto Rico: that registry withholds small counts, so rare uses may sit below its floor.
Not on the Chile record: nametree keeps spellings that reached 5 registrations in some year, so rarer uses are not shown. Not on Norway’s list: Statistics Norway lists only first names carried by 200 or more living people, so rarer names are not shown.
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