Rosales
surname · Latin script
Meaning: rose bush; origin from rosebush
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/rosales/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Rosales is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country. In Honduras it is the 43rd most common surname.
- SVEl Salvador≈1 in 280(inferred from the name graph)
- HNHonduras≈1 in 376
- NINicaragua≈1 in 394
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.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- #499 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 402 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 280 (inferred from the name graph)
≈98,000 people, est.
of 19M surnames
Highest-authority source
El Salvador, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
rose bush; origin from rosebush
Sources 1
- Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Rosales 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | #107 | ≈98,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | — | Rosales | 113 |
| US United States | — | 75,185 | 1 in 4.4K | 75K | Rosales | 402 |
| VE Venezuela | #103 | ≈49,000 est. | ≈1 in 579 | — | Rosales | 105 |
| AR Argentina | #148 | 46,561 | 1 in 977 | 47K | Rosales | 113 |
| PE Peru | #91 | ≈45,000 est. | ≈1 in 715 | — | Rosales | 109 |
| HN Honduras | #43 | ≈25,000 est. | ≈1 in 376 | — | Rosales | 70 |
| SV El Salvador | #53 | ≈23,000 est. | ≈1 in 280 | 25K | Rosales | 79 |
| CR Costa Rica | — | 15,789 | 1 in 323 | 16K | — | 76 |
| NI Nicaragua | #57 | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 394 | — | Rosales | 47 |
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 — Surname Frequency 2010; El Salvador top-100 surnames (surnam.es / RNPN-derived); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Rosales is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Filipino, a surname from Spanish, most notably borne by
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Asturian, plural of rosal
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, Rožu rinda
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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)
- Eduardo Rosalesb. 1836ESSpanish artist (1836–1873)
- Miguel Ángel Asturiasb. 1899GTnot in their usual nameGuatemalan writer and diplomat (1899–1974)
- Thomas Rosales Jr.b. 1948USAmerican actor
- Manuel Zelayab. 1952HNnot in their usual nameHonduran politician and businessman (born 1952)
- Jaime Rosalesb. 1970ESSpanish film director
- Jericho Rosalesb. 1979PHPhilippino actor and model
- Mauro Rosalesb. 1981ARArgentine footballer
- Ariadne Díazb. 1986MXnot in their usual nameMexican actress and model
- Roberto Rosalesb. 1988VEVenezuelan association football player
- Diego Reyesb. 1992MXnot in their usual nameMexican association football player
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 42 sources across 26 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 75K | #431 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 75K | #433 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 51K | #595 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 47K | — |
| SV El Salvador | El Salvador top-100 surnames (surnam.es / RNPN-derived) | — | 25K | #56 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 16K | #124 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — Consulta de nombres (Padrón Nacional Electoral name enumeration) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Rosales mean, and where does it come from?
- rose bush; origin from rosebush Recorded by Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,….
- How do you pronounce Rosales?
- A machine transcription gives /rosales/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Rosales have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 98 thousand people named Rosales in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled rosales.
- How common is the name Rosales?
- In the United States, the national register counted 75,185 people named Rosales in 2010, about 1 in 4.4 thousand residents.
- How common is Rosales compared with other names?
- In the Philippines, Rosales is the 107th most common surname of 876,464 surnames 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, “Rosales” — the 107th most common surname in Philippines. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.