Rosal
surname · Latin script
Meaning: by a rose bush, Sp. rosal (LL rosale, a deriv
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/rosal/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Rosal is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the Philippines.
- PHPhilippines
- VEVenezuela
- ESSpain
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
by a rose bush, Sp. rosal (LL rosale, a deriv. of rosa Rose). There are numerous places named with this word, for ex¬ ample in the provinces of Granada, Huelva, Orense, and Pontevedra, and the surname may also derive from any of these. Var.: Rosales.
Sources 1
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
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)
Rosal 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 Spanish, rosebush
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Cebuano, Gardenia; a genus of flowering plants in the coffee family, Rubiaceae
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Asturian, rose (shrub)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Basque, rosale . Rosal. Jarri ginean berbaetan / rosale baten parean . Lazarraga B16, 1183r.
as a wordOrotariko Euskal Hiztegia (OEH) — General/Historical Basque Dictionary, Euskaltzaindia
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)
- Antonio Maffei Rosalb. 1817FRSpanish painter (1817-1868)
- Francisco Maffei Rosalb. 1824ESSpanish painter
- Rosa Rosalb. 1928PHFilipino actress (1928–2025)
- Aura Rosario Rosal Lópezb. 1928GTwife of Guatemalan president (1928–2021)
- Jaime Rosalb. 1945ESSpanish journalist and writer
- Angelita Rosalb. 1951USAmerican table tennis player
- María Rosal Nadalesb. 1961ESWriter and professor at the University of Cordoba (Spain)
- Noel Rosalb. 1964PHpolitician
- José Enrique Caraballob. 1996VEnot in their usual nameVenezuelan association football player
- Patrick RosalFilipino American poet and essayist
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 34 sources across 20 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 2.3K | #4,329 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 1.2K | #3,644 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 1.2K | #3,643 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.2K | #22,553 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 983 | #25,202 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 742 | #29,873 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 218 | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 40 | — |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 38 | #30,822 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | — | 29 | — |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 11 | #5,091 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 10 | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
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 Rosal come from?
- by a rose bush, Sp. rosal (LL rosale, a deriv. of rosa Rose). Recorded by The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles.
- How do you pronounce Rosal?
- A machine transcription gives /rosal/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- What does the name Rosal mean?
- Recorded meaning: by a rose bush, Sp. rosal (LL rosale, a deriv.
- In which country does Rosal have the most bearers?
- Rosal is most frequently recorded in the Philippines.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/rosalThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Rosal”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.