Rosan

given name · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Rosan is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nepal than in any other country. Recorded meaning: redução dialetal setentrional de Rosano.

rarermore common
  • NPNepal≈1 in 4.4K(inferred from the name graph)
  • NLNetherlands1 in 16K
  • GYGuyana1 in 33K

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.

Nepal (inferred from the name graph)

≈6,800 people, est.

Sources
57 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 4.4K (inferred from the name graph)

Nepal, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

redução dialetal setentrional de Rosano

Sources 1

  • Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Rosan 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 Rosan is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
NP Nepal≈6,800 est.≈1 in 4.4K—Rosan24
PH Philippines≈1,400 est.≈1 in 76K—Rosan10
ID Indonesia≈1,100 est.≈1 in 242K—Rosan42
NL Netherlands1,0881 in 16K1.1KRosan9
BR Brazil3721 in 569K435——
GY Guyana231 in 33K23——

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: Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); 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)

Rosan is also recorded as 8 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name15 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, India, Philippines, Netherlands

    Languages: English, Dutch, German

    Also written Ros-An, Roesan, Roşan, Rösan, Rosán

  • Spanish given name10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, Philippines, Argentina, United States

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Ros-An, Ròsan, Rosán, Rosân, Rosañ

  • French given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Netherlands, India, Philippines

    Also written Rosans, Roşan

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Roșan, Roṣān

  • Croatian given name11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Croatia, Bulgaria, Philippines

    Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian, Serbian

    Also written Рошан, Rošan, Росан, Roşan

  • Bangla given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Bangladesh, Malaysia

    Languages: Bangla, Odia

    Also written Roşan

  • Swahili given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Philippines, United States, Kenya

    Also written Roşan

  • Sinhala given name10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Sri Lanka, United States, United Kingdom

    Also written Roshan, රොෂාන්, රෝෂාන්, රොෂින, රෝෂන්

55 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)

Rosan is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Italian, Variante di Rosa

    as a nameDizionario dei cognomi italiani

  • In ang, inflection of rōse:

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

  • In kaw, sugar cane

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

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)

19001920194019601980Rosan Girard, b. 1913Rattlesnake Annie, b. 1941Rosan Rauzduel, b. 1965Rosan Bosch, 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 50 sources across 25 countries.

Official registers attesting Rosan
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
NL NetherlandsCBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007)200714#57,258

Reference works 5

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 Rosan mean, and where does it come from?
redução dialetal setentrional de Rosano Recorded by Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos.
Is Rosan a male or female name?
Rosan is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
In which country does Rosan have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 6.8 thousand people named Rosan in Nepal, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled rosan.
How common is the name Rosan?
In the Netherlands, the national register counted 1,088 people named Rosan, about 1 in 16 thousand residents.

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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, “Rosan”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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