Rosaleen
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Irish diminutive of Rose; used in ‘Dark Rosaleen’ as a figurative name for Ireland
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɹoʊsəɫin/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Rosaleen is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 21Kas Rosalyn(measured from records)
- VEVenezuela1 in 23Kas Roselyn
- GYGuyana1 in 34Kas Roselyn
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Rosaleen itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 65 (measured from records)
- 1 in 21K (inferred from the name graph)
15,902 named Rosalyn, 2020
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
United States, as Rosalyn
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Rosalyn in US United States.
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)
Irish diminutive of Rose; used in ‘Dark Rosaleen’ as a figurative name for Ireland.
Sources 1
- Irish first names
Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Rosaleen 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 15,902as Rosalyn | 1 in 21K | 16K | Rosalyn | 15 |
| VE Venezuela | 1,266as Roselyn | 1 in 23K | 1.3K | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | 347as Rosalyn | 1 in 50K | 347 | — | 2 |
| CR Costa Rica | 121as Rosalyn | 1 in 42K | 121 | — | — |
| ES Spain | 82as Roselyn | 1 in 610K | 82 | — | 2 |
| GY Guyana | 22as Roselyn | 1 in 34K | 22 | — | — |
15,902 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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; asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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)
Rosaleen is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
English: variant of ROSALYN , influenced by the suffix - een (in origin the Irish Gaelic diminutive - in ). ‘Dark Rosaleen’ was the title of a poem by James Clarence Mangan (1803–49), based on the Gaelic poem Róisín Dubh ; in it the name is used as a figurative allusion to the Irish nation.
as a word
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)
- Rosaleen Millsb. 1905IEIrish activist and educator
- Rosaleen Linehanb. 1937IEIrish actress
- Rosaleen Loveb. 1940AUAustralian writer
- Rosaleen Daveyb. 1947IEIrish visual artist
- Bridget R. Scanlonb. 1959IEnot in their usual nameIrish-American hydrogeologist
- Rosaleen Moriarty-Simmondsb. 1960GBBritish businesswoman, artist and disability rights campaigner
- Rosaleen Duffyb. 1971GBresearcher ORCID ID = 0000-0002-6779-7240
- Rosaleen McDonaghIEwriter
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 21 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 873 | #13,732 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2019 | 51 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2018 | 47 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2020 | 36 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2017 | 34 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1927 | 26 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2024 | 24 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1925 | 23 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2023 | 21 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2013 | 21 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2014 | 20 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1921 | 20 | — |
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 are other forms of the name Rosaleen?
- In the etymology graph, Rosalinda, Rosalina and Rosalind are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Rosaleen?
- A machine transcription gives /ɹoʊsəɫin/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Rosaleen mean, and where does it come from?
- Irish diminutive of Rose; used in ‘Dark Rosaleen’ as a figurative name for Ireland. Recorded by Irish first names.
- Is Rosaleen a male or female name?
- Rosaleen 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.
- In which country does Rosaleen have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 16 thousand people named Rosalyn, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Rosaleen most common?
- No national register we hold counts the spelling Rosaleen itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is United States's: the national register counts about 1 in 21 thousand people named Rosalyn.
- How common is the name Rosaleen?
- In the United States, the national register counted 15,902 people named Rosalyn in 2020, about 1 in 21 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Rosaleen?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/rosaleenThe 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, “Rosaleen”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.