Rose

Popularity, 1880–2025

girls named Rose boys named Rose

By the numbers

Total US births

502,704

Estimated living today

197,000

Median age today

66

Peak year

1917

Best rank

16th

Rank in 2025

114th

First recorded

1880

Girls / boys

500,586 / 2,118

How old the living Roses are

born that year still alive today

Of the 502,704 babies given the name since 1880, about 197,000 are alive — 39 in every hundred. Roughly 33,000 of them are children and 104,000 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1959 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.

Where the name comes from

Origin Germanic

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Notable Roses

• Rose of Lima (1586–1617)Dominican saint from Peru
• Rose Byrne (born 1979)Australian actress
• Rose McGowan (born 1973)American actress, director and activist
• Rose Leslie (born 1987)Scottish actress
• Rose Marie (1923–2017)American actress, singer, comedian, and vaudeville performer
• Rose Francine Rogombe (1942–2015)Gabonese politician
• Rose Christiane Raponda (born 1963)Vice President of Gabon in 2023
• Ruby Rose (born 1986)Australian actor, model, DJ, and recording artist

People named Rose with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Where Rose is most common

• NY68,811
• PA42,080
• CA25,800
• IL25,042
• OH21,640
• NJ20,528
• TX20,291
• MI16,695
• MA15,370
• LA11,179

Relative to how many babies each state records, Rose is most concentrated in New York (2.0×), Rhode Island (1.9×), Pennsylvania (1.8×), New Jersey (1.7×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1917

The most popular girls’ names the year Rose peaked:

• Mary
• Helen
• Dorothy
• Margaret
• Ruth
• Mildred

All the names of 1917

Rose elsewhere

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.

Rose: births by region

Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.

By canton, Rose is most concentrated in Valais, where 0.13% of children were given it – 86 of them.

Rose: rank by region

In 2025, Rose was given 5 times or more in 3 regions of Belgium.

In 2023, Rose was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.

In 2025, Rose was given 2 times or more in 3 regions of Poland.

In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Rose appears in the lists for Province of Liège (9th), Province of Walloon Brabant (15th), Province of Hainaut (16th), Province of Namur (16th), Province of Luxembourg (35th), Brussels-Capital Region (57th), Province of Flemish Brabant (128th) and Province of Antwerp (276th).

Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Italy after 10 names, Poland below 2 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.

Rose by city

One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.

Rose 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.

Among girls in the Netherlands this is mostly a middle name: of the 3,875 who carry it, 958 go by it.

A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, 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 Rose lives in Spain

Not a count of births but of people: 406 women called Rose were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.

Women: the provinces where it is densest

Listed in 20 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 32 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.

Related names

• Rosa
• Rosemary
• Rosie
• Rosalie
• Ross
• Rosemarie
• Rosetta
• Rosalind
• Rosalyn
• Roscoe
• Roslyn
• Rosario

Rose against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

• Rose vs Rosa
• Rose vs Rosemary
• Rose vs Rosie
• Rose vs Rosalie
• Rose vs Ross
• Rose vs Rosemarie

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