Roz
Meaning
“A short form of Rosalind; famously borne by Roz Savage, the first woman to row solo across the Atlantic, the Pacific, and the Indian Ocean.”
The formal names behind Roz
Roz is an established short form of each of these names.
Rosalind · Germanic origin · gentle horse, or pretty rose (contested); famously borne by Rosalind Franklin, chemist whose X-ray images were essential to discovering the structure of DNA
Rosalie · French origin · elaboration of Rose, from Latin "rose flower"
Popularity, 1890–2024
Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Roz has stayed rare in US records the whole time: no peak decade to name.
The Roz deep dive
Whether you’re naming a baby or exploring your own name’s history, this is a personal letter, not a list: where Roz truly comes from, how it traveled, and what a century of records reveals. If you have grown a tree on nametree, it also considers how Roz fits with your family’s names and surname.
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