Rosary
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Prayer beads, a string of beads used to keep track of repetitions in prayer, particularly in the Roman Catholic Marian prayer "Hail Mary" (Ave Maria)
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɹoʊzəɹi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Rosary is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 83K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 621K
- JMJamaica≈1 in 194K
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.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 148 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 83K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,300 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Philippines, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Prayer beads, a string of beads used to keep track of repetitions in prayer, particularly in the Roman Catholic Marian prayer "Hail Mary" (Ave Maria)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Rosary 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 83K | — | Rosary | 38 |
| US United States | 536 | 1 in 621K | 529 | Rosary | 148 |
| NG Nigeria | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 1.1M | — | Rosary | 9 |
| KE Kenya | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 360K | — | Rosary | 7 |
| IT Italy | ≈89 est. | ≈1 in 702K | listed | Rosary | 4 |
| DO Dominican Republic | ≈50 est. | ≈1 in 209K | — | Rosary | 9 |
| AU Australia | ≈49 est. | ≈1 in 516K | — | Rosary | 28 |
| JM Jamaica | ≈14 est. | ≈1 in 194K | — | Rosary | 1 |
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 il-grande-libro-nomi-bebe-2020 register. 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Margaret Rosary Haswellb. 1917GBBritish economist
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 11 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 529 | #19,629 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1946 | 18 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1943 | 18 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1947 | 17 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1957 | 16 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1956 | 14 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1948 | 14 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1954 | 13 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1951 | 12 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1923 | 12 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1941 | 11 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1939 | 11 | — |
Reference works 1
- 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 Rosary mean, and where does it come from?
- Prayer beads, a string of beads used to keep track of repetitions in prayer, particularly in the Roman Catholic Marian prayer "Hail Mary" (Ave Maria) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Rosary?
- A machine transcription gives /ɹoʊzəɹi/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Rosary a male or female name?
- Rosary 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 Rosary have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.3 thousand people named Rosary in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled rosary.
- How common is the name Rosary?
- In the United States, the national register counted 536 people named Rosary in 2020, about 1 in 621 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/rosaryThe 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, “Rosary”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.