Rosalind

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Rosalind is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Old German elements; often taken as 'pretty rose'.

rarermore common
  • GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 6.6K(inferred from the name graph)
  • AUAustralia≈1 in 10K
  • USUnited States1 in 18K

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.

China (inferred from the name graph)

≈88,000 people, est.

Sources
414 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 6.6K (inferred from the name graph)

United Kingdom, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Old German elements; often taken as 'pretty rose'.

Sources 1

  • Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…

Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Rosalind 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.

Where Rosalind is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CN China—≈88,000 est.≈1 in 16K—Rosalind12
US United States—18,2101 in 18K18KRosalind414
GB United Kingdom#595≈10,000 est.≈1 in 6.6K4Rosalind200
AU Australia#942≈2,500 est.≈1 in 10K3Rosalind133
EG Egypt—≈2,400 est.≈1 in 43K—Rosalind8
SG Singapore#682≈640 est.≈1 in 9.6K—Rosalind80
NZ New Zealand#588≈480 est.≈1 in 10K12Rosalind64
GY Guyana—521 in 14K52—4

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; NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM); DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present); 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Rosalind is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, France, United Kingdom, Colombia

    Languages: Spanish, French, Portuguese

    Also written Rṍsälińd

  • Russian given name12 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Russia, United Kingdom, Ukraine

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Росалинд, Розалинд, Розалінд, Rosalinde, Rozalind

51 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Rosalind is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In English, A female given name from the Germanic languages.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In German, weibl. Vom., Variante von

    as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

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)

1850190019502000Rosalind Ivan, b. 1880Rosalind Russell, b. 1907Rosalind Hicks, b. 1919Rosalind Franklin, b. 1920Rosalind Knight, b. 1933Rosalind Cash, b. 1938Rosalind Krauss, b. 1941Rosalind Ayres, b. 1946Rosalind Chao, b. 1957Rosalind Wiseman, b. 1969

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 53 sources across 32 countries.

Official registers attesting Rosalind
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 3

  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • 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 Rosalind?
In the etymology graph, Rose, Rosalinda and Rosalina are forms of the same name in other languages; Roz is a recorded short or pet form.
What does the name Rosalind mean, and where does it come from?
Old German elements; often taken as 'pretty rose'. Recorded by Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular….
Is Rosalind a male or female name?
Rosalind 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.
How common is the name Rosalind?
In the United States, the national register counted 18,210 people named Rosalind in 2020, about 1 in 18 thousand residents.
How common is Rosalind compared with other names?
In New Zealand, Rosalind is the 588th most common given name of 26,737 given names recorded there.
In which country does Rosalind have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 88 thousand people named Rosalind in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled rosalind.

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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, “Rosalind” — the 588th most common given name in New Zealand. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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