Rosa

given name · Latin script

Meaning: from place names in Thuringia; also metronymic

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/rosa/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Rosa is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Peru than in any other country, where it is the 6th most common given name.

rarermore common
  • SVEl Salvador≈1 in 63(inferred from the name graph)
  • ECEcuador1 in 67
  • PEPeru≈1 in 87

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Peru (inferred from the name graph)

≈370,000 people, est.

#79 (measured from records)

of 15M given names

5 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
481 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 63 (inferred from the name graph)

El Salvador, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

RosaLatin(measured from records)
РозаCyrillic(measured from records)
ՌոզաArmenian(measured from records)
ΡοζαGreek(measured from records)
როზაGeorgian(measured from records)

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

from place names in Thuringia; also metronymic

Sources 1

  • Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung

Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Rosa counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Rosa is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PE Peru#6≈370,000 est.≈1 in 87309KRosa139
AR Argentina#20≈260,000 est.≈1 in 17314KRosa143
US United States#233254,2751 in 1.3K254KRosa481
BR Brazil#28252,7481 in 838307KRosa252
EC Ecuador#5252,5581 in 67253KRosa84
VE Venezuela#19≈200,000 est.≈1 in 143—Rosa100
SV El Salvador#15≈100,000 est.≈1 in 63—Rosa57

Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; RENIEC — DNI population names; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); INEC — civil registry names. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Rosa is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French given name22 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Belgium, Peru

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Rósa, Rosä, Roså, Rõsã, Řôšă

  • a separate name7 spellings in the group

    Also written Rošā, Roșa, Rósa, Roša, Rosà

  • Indonesian given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, Peru, Philippines, United States

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written 'Rosa, Rosa'

  • Swedish given name8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Denmark, Peru, Sweden

    Languages: Swedish, Danish, Norwegian

    Also written Rósa, Rösa

  • Hindi given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, Peru, Spain

    Also written Rósa, Roşa, ́rosa, Rosà

  • Finnish given name6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Finland, Spain, Peru

    Languages: Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Rósa, Rosä, Rösä, Rõsä

106 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Rosa is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Portuguese, rose (flower)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Latin, Latín rosa 'rosa'; préstamo de un sustrato mediterráneo. Asociado a santas como Rosa de Viterbo y Rosa de Lima.

    as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios

  • In Italian, do nome latino Rosa, ligado à flor; também matronímico

    as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

  • In Italian, Nome frequentissimo; dall’italiano rosa, il fiore. Diffuso anche come cognome.

    as a nameDizionario Dei Nomi e Cognomi Italiani

  • rose; origin from rose

    as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1850190019502000Red Rosa Luxemburg, b. 1871Rosa Parks, b. 1913Linda Christian, b. 1923Rosa Schärer, b. 1924Rita Moreno, b. 1931Connie Francis, b. 1937Roza Otunbayeva, b. 1950Rosa Mota, b. 1958Rossy de Palma, b. 1964Rosa Salazar, b. 1985

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

How to address them(machine-generated)

InformalHola Rosa,Hi Rosa, (English)

A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 157 sources across 76 countries.

Official registers attesting Rosa
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
PE PeruRENIEC — DNI population names2019309K#2
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—307K#159
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020254K#213
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)2022253K—
EC EcuadorINEC — civil registry names2024253K#2
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—252K#122
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)20201.1K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—1.1K#122
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020622#213

Reference works 12

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Rosa mean, and where does it come from?
from place names in Thuringia; also metronymic Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
What are other forms of the name Rosa?
In the etymology graph, Rose, Rosalia and Rosalie are forms of the same name in other languages.
In which country does Rosa have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 368 thousand people named Rosa in Peru, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled rosa.
How do you pronounce Rosa?
A machine transcription gives /rosa/ (IPA) for Spanish.
Is Rosa a male or female name?
Rosa is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
How common is the name Rosa?
In the United States, the national register counted 254,275 people named Rosa in 2020, about 1 in 1.3 thousand residents.
How common is Rosa compared with other names?
In Peru, Rosa is the 6th most common given name of 254,284 given names recorded there.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Rosa” — the 6th most common given name in Peru. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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