Rosario
The girl's name Rosario has been in the national records since 1896, with 16,585 births to its name. It is given to both boys and girls. In 2025 it ranked 2,099th. About 12,000 Rosarios are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 43.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Rosario boys named Rosario
Girls and boys called Rosario
years more girls than boys years more boys than girls
Rosario crossed from boys to girls in 1938, and has stayed there for 88 of the years counted since. At its furthest it was 89% girls, and in 2025 it was 82%.
The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 115 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 16,585
- Estimated living today
- 12,000
- Median age today
- 43
- Peak year
- 1993
- Best rank
- 1,049th
- Rank in 2025
- 2,099th
- First recorded
- 1896
- Girls / boys
- 10,974 / 5,611
How old the living Rosarios are
born that year still alive today
Of the 16,585 babies given the name since 1896, about 12,000 are alive — 72 in every hundred. Roughly 2,000 of them are children and 2,400 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1982 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Rosarios
- Rosario Dawson (born 1979)American actress
- Rosario Castellanos (1925–1974)Mexican writer
- Rosario Flores (born 1963)Spanish singer and actress
- Rosario Murillo (born 1951)co-president of Nicaragua since 2025
- Rosario Fernández (born 1955)Peruvian lawyer and politician
- Rosario Livatino (1952–1990)Italian judge
- Rosario Fiorello (born 1960)Italian comedian
- Rosario de Acuña (1850–1923)Spanish writer, poet and playwright
People named Rosario with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Rosario is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Rosario is most concentrated in Texas (4.3×), California (3.2×), New York (2.4×), Arizona (2.1×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1993
The most popular girls’ names the year Rosario peaked:
Rosario elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Italy boys | Rosario | 6,328 | — |
| France boys | Rosario | 770 | 358th |
| France girls | Rosario | 740 | 409th |
| Belgium boys | Rosario | 82 | 1,030th |
| Ireland girls | Rosario | 48 | 352nd |
| England and Wales boys | Rosario | 20 | 3,990th |
| England and Wales girls | Rosario | 13 | 3,409th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Rosario: rank by region
In 2023, Rosario was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wallonia | Rosario | 418 | 6 |
In 2020, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Rosario appears in the lists for Province of Hainaut (208th).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Rosario among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland girls | Rosario | — | 26 |
| Finland boys | Rosario | — | 10 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Rosario lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 309 men called Rosario and 102,875 women called Rosario were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Men: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ciudad Real | Rosario | 32 | 0.130 | 518 |
| Santa Cruz de Tenerife | Rosario | 22 | 0.041 | 1,876 |
| Toledo | Rosario | 9 | 0.024 | 1,732 |
| Balears, Illes | Rosario | 12 | 0.019 | 2,707 |
| Barcelona | Rosario | 55 | 0.019 | 2,462 |
| Alicante/Alacant | Rosario | 18 | 0.018 | 2,928 |
Listed in 12 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 40 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Women: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sevilla | Rosario | 16,865 | 16.641 | 7 |
| Cádiz | Rosario | 7,890 | 12.313 | 12 |
| Córdoba | Rosario | 4,700 | 11.892 | 14 |
| Huelva | Rosario | 2,088 | 7.693 | 23 |
| Granada | Rosario | 3,360 | 6.988 | 25 |
| Albacete | Rosario | 1,318 | 6.772 | 26 |
Listed in 52 of Spain's 52 provinces. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Rosario against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.