Rosalba
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Del latín rosa 'rosa' y alba 'blanca': 'rosa blanca'
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɾosalba/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Rosalba is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Colombia than in any other country.
- COColombia≈1 in 1.3K(inferred from the name graph)
- PYParaguay≈1 in 2K
- VEVenezuela1 in 2.6K
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.
- Colombia (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 288 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.3K (inferred from the name graph)
≈39,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Colombia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(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)
Del latín rosa 'rosa' y alba 'blanca': 'rosa blanca'.
Sources 1
- Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Rosalba 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CO Colombia | #260 | ≈39,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | 9 | Rosalba | 100 |
| IT Italy | #543 | ≈20,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.1K | 16 | Rosalba | 110 |
| US United States | — | 15,000 | 1 in 22K | 15K | Rosalba | 288 |
| VE Venezuela | #351 | 11,015 | 1 in 2.6K | 11K | Rosalba | 37 |
| PY Paraguay | #215 | ≈3,600 est. | ≈1 in 2K | — | Rosalba | 23 |
| DO Dominican Republic | #253 | ≈2,600 est. | ≈1 in 4K | — | Rosalba | 27 |
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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; the co-datosgov-candidates register; asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996); 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)
Rosalba 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 Italian, composto de Rosa e Alba
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In French, Forme composée d’origine latine, signifiant « rose blanche ».
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
In French, Italien, de rosa « rose » + alba « blanche ».
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
In French, Composé de rosa + alba « blanche ».
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
In French, From Latin rosa alba, “white rose”.
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
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)
- Rosalba Carrierab. 1675ITItalian portrait painter and pastellist (1675–1757)
- Rosalba Nerib. 1939ITItalian actress
- Rosalba Benzonib. 1942ITItalian politician
- Rosalba Grottesib. 1946ITItalian actress
- Rosalba Bongiovannib. 1949ITItalian actor
- Rosalba Cesinib. 1950ITItalian politician
- Rosalba Ciarlinib. 1952BR54th Governor of Rio Grande do Norte
- Mercedes Aráozb. 1961PEnot in their usual namePeruvian economist and politician
- Arisab. 1982ITnot in their usual nameItalian singer-songwriter
- Rosalba Forcinitib. 1986ITItalian judoka
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)
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 52 sources across 28 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 15K | #1,898 |
| VE Venezuela | asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996) | — | 11K | #174 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 33 | #1,898 |
| IT Italy | ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend) | 2024 | 16 | #694 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 12 | — |
| CO Colombia | Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co) | — | 9 | #112 |
| IT Italy | Il Grande Libro dei Nomi per Bebè (2020) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Rosalba mean?
- Recorded meaning: Del latín rosa 'rosa' y alba 'blanca': 'rosa blanca'.
- How do you pronounce Rosalba?
- A machine transcription gives /ɾosalba/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- Is Rosalba a male or female name?
- Rosalba 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 are other forms of the name Rosalba?
- In the etymology graph, Rosalva is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Rosalba have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 39 thousand people named Rosalba in Colombia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled rosalba.
- How common is the name Rosalba?
- In the United States, the national register counted 15,000 people named Rosalba in 2020, about 1 in 22 thousand residents.
- How common is Rosalba compared with other names?
- In Colombia, Rosalba is the 260th most common given name of 106,067 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Rosalba?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/rosalbaThe 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, “Rosalba” — the 260th most common given name in Colombia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.