Roseby
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɹoʊzbi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Roseby is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Australia than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): Northumb and Durham. locative name from Roxby in Hinderwell (NR Yorks), recorded as Rozebi in 1086, or Roxby in Thornton Dale (NR Yorks), recorded as Rosebi in 1086.
- AUAustralia≈1 in 239K(inferred from the name graph)
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 668K
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 1M
carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Australia (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 68 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 239K (inferred from the name graph)
≈110 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Australia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Main GB Location (1881): Northumb and Durham. locative name from Roxby in Hinderwell (NR Yorks), recorded as Rozebi in 1086, or Roxby in Thornton Dale (NR Yorks), recorded as Rosebi in 1086.
Sources 1
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
Where in the world(measured from records)
Roseby 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AU Australia | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 239K | — | Roseby | 42 |
| US United States | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 3.3M | listed | Roseby | 68 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈66 est. | ≈1 in 1M | 129 | Roseby | 61 |
| VE Venezuela | ≈13 est. | ≈1 in 2.2M | — | Roseby | 6 |
| CA Canada | ≈10 est. | ≈1 in 3.8M | — | Roseby | 6 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈7 est. | ≈1 in 668K | — | Roseby | 11 |
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: the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral 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)
- Gertrude Amy Rosebyb. 1872AU(1872-1971) Australian Congregationalist lay leader and headmistress
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 5 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 129 | #28,215 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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 Roseby mean, and where does it come from?
- Main GB Location (1881): Northumb and Durham. locative name from Roxby in Hinderwell (NR Yorks), recorded as Rozebi in 1086, or Roxby in Thornton Dale (NR Yorks), recorded as Rosebi in 1086. Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland.
- How do you pronounce Roseby?
- A machine transcription gives /ɹoʊzbi/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Roseby have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 106 people named Roseby in Australia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled roseby.
- How common is the name Roseby?
- Mondonomo estimates about 110 people in Australia have Roseby as their first surname, about 1 in 239 thousand residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/rosebyThe 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, “Roseby”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.