Rosario
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Rosario is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country. In Nicaragua it is the 11th most common given name. In Spanish, recorded as rosary.
- ESSpain1 in 486(measured from records)
- PEPeru≈1 in 501
- NINicaragua≈1 in 772
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)
- #530 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 393 (measured from records)
- 1 in 486 (inferred from the name graph)
≈110,000 people, est.
of 15M given names
Highest-authority source
Spain
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
From Spanish/Italian rosario, “rosary”; feast of Our Lady of the Rosary.
Sources 1
- Dictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
How Rosario is read(measured from records)
Rosario is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Spanish79%
rosary
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English8.7%
From Spanish/Italian 'rosary'; also a saint's name.
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The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Rosario 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 | #331 | ≈110,000 est. | ≈1 in 1K | — | Rosario | 137 |
| ES Spain | #91 | 102,875 | 1 in 486 | 111K | Rosario | 180 |
| PE Peru | #40 | ≈64,000 est. | ≈1 in 501 | — | Rosario | 121 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈55,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | 146 | Rosario | 110 |
| US United States | — | 36,973 | 1 in 9K | 52K | Rosario | 393 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 24,350 | 1 in 694 | 24K | Rosario | 49 |
| NI Nicaragua | #11 | ≈8,000 est. | ≈1 in 772 | — | Rosario | 37 |
| SV El Salvador | #98 | ≈6,700 est. | ≈1 in 975 | — | Rosario | 30 |
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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INEC — civil registry names; ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend). 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)
Rosario is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, From Spanish/Italian rosario, “rosary”; feast of Our Lady of the Rosary.
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
Marian name honouring Nuestra Sefiora del Rosario ‘Our Lady of the Rosary’.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
In Portuguese, ary, given in particular to someone who was born on the festival of Our Lady of the Rosary, celebrated on the ist Sunday in October. The word derives from LL rosarium rose garden (a deriv. of rosa Rose), and was transferred to a set of devotions dedicated to the Virgin Mary as the result of the medieval symbolism which constantly compared her to a rose.
as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
In Portuguese, given in particular to someone who was born on the festival of Our Lady of the Rosary, celebrated on the 1st Sunday in October. The word derives from LL rosarium rose garden (a deriv. of rosa Rose), and was transferred to a set of devotions dedicated to the Virgin Mary as the result of the medieval symbolism which constantly compared her to a rose.
as a nameA dictionary of surnames
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)
- Saro Urzìb. 1913ITnot in their usual nameItalian film director and actor (1913–1979)
- Rosario Castellanosb. 1925MXMexican writer (1925-1974)
- Rosario Murillob. 1951NIco-president of Nicaragua since 2025
- Rosario Crocettab. 1951ITItalian politician
- Rosario Fernándezb. 1955PEPeruvian lawyer and politician
- Lourdes Floresb. 1959PEnot in their usual namePeruvian politician
- Fiorellob. 1960ITnot in their usual nameItalian comedian (born 1960)
- Rosario Floresb. 1963ESSpanish singer and actress
- Rosario Bléfarib. 1965ARArgentinian singer-songwriter, actress, short story author
- Rosario Dawsonb. 1979USAmerican actress (born 1979)
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 94 sources across 40 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 111K | #39 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 103K | #87 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 32K | #1,117 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — civil registry names | 2024 | 24K | #82 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 5.3K | #1,117 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 312 | #2,950 |
| IT Italy | ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend) | 2024 | 146 | #138 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 89 | — |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 2024 | 21 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 19 | — |
Reference works 7
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- 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
- Where does the name Rosario come from?
- From Spanish/Italian rosario, “rosary”; feast of Our Lady of the Rosary. Recorded by Dictionnaire généalogique des prénoms.
- Is Rosario a male or female name?
- Rosario 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.
- What does the name Rosario mean?
- In Spanish, rosary
- In which country does Rosario have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 108 thousand people named Rosario in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled rosario.
- Where is Rosario most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Rosario is densest in Spain — about 1 in 486 people — even though Philippines holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Rosario?
- In Spain, the national register counted 102,875 people named Rosario, about 1 in 486 residents.
- How common is Rosario compared with other names?
- In the Philippines, Rosario is the 331st most common given name of 486,299 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, “Rosario” — the 331st most common given name in Philippines. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.