Rose
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Rose is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country. In the Philippines it is the 20th most common given name. Recorded meaning: (i) ‘person who lives where roses grow abundantly’ or in a house marked by a rose; (ii) from a medieval nickname for someone with a rosy complexion; (iii) an invented Jewish name based on German Rose;.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 700(inferred from the name graph)
- NGNigeria≈1 in 719
- USUnited States1 in 1.3Kas Rosa
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Rose 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.
- Nigeria (inferred from the name graph)
- #356 (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 593 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 700 (inferred from the name graph)
≈300,000 people, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Philippines, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Rosa in EC Ecuador, ES Spain and Roese in PL Poland.
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)
(i) ‘person who lives where roses grow abundantly’ or in a house marked by a rose; (ii) from a medieval nickname for someone with a rosy complexion; (iii) an invented Jewish name based on German Rose; (iv) a different form of Royce; (v) ‘son of Royze’, a Yiddish female personal name meaning ‘rose’.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Rose 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NG Nigeria | #156 | ≈300,000 est. | ≈1 in 719 | listed | Rose | 94 |
| US United States | #168 | 254,275as Rosa | 1 in 1.3K | 254K | Rose | 593 |
| BR Brazil | — | 252,748as Rosa | 1 in 838 | 307K | — | 9 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 252,558as Rosa | 1 in 67 | 253K | Rosa | 19 |
| PH Philippines | #20 | ≈160,000 est. | ≈1 in 700 | — | Rose | 183 |
| ES Spain | — | 86,111as Rosa | 1 in 581 | 93K | Rosa | 112 |
| CR Costa Rica | — | 14,388as Rosa | 1 in 354 | 14K | — | 1 |
| PL Poland | — | 469 | 1 in 82K | 4K | Roese | 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; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); INEC — civil registry names; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). 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)
Rose 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.
Since 1776 is a house shield in the Judengasse of Frankfort on Main. Rosen is an American short form for Rosenstein. The botanical term is plant of roses, but a house sign too. Rosetree is the US short form of Rosenbaum. Baum is the US short form of Rosenbaum. With the elimination of the middle syllable in the US, Ros- wig.
as a nameThe Origin of Jewish Family Names: Morphology and History
In German, From mhd. rôse, mnd. rose ‘rose’; demonstrates o/oo length marking. 9,974 bearers.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus
In Irish, Usually from Old German hros, ‘horse’; in St Rose of Lima it is from rosa, ‘rose’.
as a nameIrish first names
In English, from Hrodohaidis/Rohesia, later influenced by rose; earliest attestation Rothais 1086 DB (Herts)
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In German, mostly from the flower name; also from Rozo (HROD- stem) and as a metronymic
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
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)
- Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdonb. 1930GBnot in their usual nameBritish princess (1930–2002)
- Claudia Cardinaleb. 1938FRnot in their usual nameItalian actress (1938–2025)
- Sienna Millerb. 1981USnot in their usual nameBritish-American actress
- Lily Allenb. 1985GBnot in their usual nameBritish singer and actress
- Emilia Clarkeb. 1986GBnot in their usual nameEnglish actress, model and writer
- Ruby Roseb. 1986AUAustralian actor, model, DJ, and recording artist
- Emma Robertsb. 1991USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress, singer, model and producer
- Poppyb. 1995USnot in their usual nameAmerican singer
- Florence Pughb. 1996GBnot in their usual nameBritish actress (born 1996)
- Chappell Roanb. 1998USnot in their usual nameAmerican singer (born 1998)
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 155 sources across 76 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 153K | #177 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 150K | #179 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 147K | #168 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 474 | #8,383 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 474 | #8,372 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 296 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 225 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 225 | #14,499 |
Reference works 12
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
- Søndergaard, Georg, Danske efternavne (Lademann 1984/1991)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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 Rose mean, and where does it come from?
- (i) ‘person who lives where roses grow abundantly’ or in a house marked by a rose; (ii) from a medieval nickname for someone with a rosy complexion; (iii) an invented Jewish name based on German Rose;… Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- Is Rose a male or female name?
- Rose 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 Rose?
- In the etymology graph, Rosa, Rosemary and Rosemarie are forms of the same name in other languages; Rosie, Rosy and Rosine are recorded short or pet forms.
- In which country does Rose have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 298 thousand people named Rose in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled rose.
- How common is the name Rose?
- In Poland, the national register counted 469 people named Rose in 2026, about 1 in 82 thousand residents.
- How common is Rose compared with other names?
- In Nigeria, Rose is the 156th most common given name of 138,191 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Rose?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/roseThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Rose” — the 156th most common given name in Nigeria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.