Rosen
surname · Latin script
Meaning: (i) ‘person from Rosen’, Germany (‘place where roses grow’); (ii) an invented Jewish name based on German Rosen ‘roses’ (Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history])
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 29 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Rosen is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 22,596 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2010. In Sweden it is the 90th most common surname.
- SESweden1 in 1.3K(measured from records)
- CACanada≈1 in 11K
- USUnited States1 in 15K
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 Rosen itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 477 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.3K (inferred from the name graph)
22,596 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Rosén in SE Sweden, BJ Benin and Roesen in BM Bermuda.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)(i) ‘person from Rosen’, Germany (‘place where roses grow’); (ii) an invented Jewish name based on German Rosen ‘roses’.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Rosen, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where the surname Rosen is found
(measured from records)Rosen 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | #999 | 22,596 | 1 in 15K | 23K | Rosen | 477 |
| SE Sweden | #90 | 8,115 | 1 in 1.3K | 8.1K | Rosén | 74 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈4,100 est. | ≈1 in 17K | 1.1K | Rosen | 158 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈3,600 est. | ≈1 in 11K | 1 | Rosen | 156 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈2,700 est. | ≈1 in 31K | listed | Rosen | 108 |
| BJ Benin | #568 | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Rosén | 5 |
| BM Bermuda | — | ≈12 est. | ≈1 in 5.5K | — | Roesen | 1 |
22,596 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; the dfa-band-1 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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Rosen 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.
In German, Rose; includes Latinized and Germanized forms with vowel variation in Rosen- names.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus
In English, Made of or consisting of roses.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In German, Patronymisch mit schwachem Genitiv zu Rose; Belegzählung 812. Karte zu o/oo in Rose-Namen.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus
In kw, singulative of ros (“roses”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Norwegian Bokmål, definite masculine singular of rose
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)- Nathan Rosenb. 1909ILAmerican-Israeli physicist
- Charles Rosenb. 1927USAmerican pianist and writer on music (1927–2012)
- Jacky Rosenb. 1957USAmerican politician (born 1957)
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)50 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 29 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Rosen mean, and where does it come from?
- (i) ‘person from Rosen’, Germany (‘place where roses grow’); (ii) an invented Jewish name based on German Rosen ‘roses’. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Rosen?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 23 thousand people named Rosen, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled rosen. After it come Sweden, United Kingdom, Canada and Germany; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Rosen most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Rosen is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 1.3 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Rosen?
- In the United States, the national register counted 22,596 people named Rosen in 2010, about 1 in 15 thousand residents.
- How common is Rosen compared with other names?
- In the United States, Rosen is the 999th most common surname of 6,282,806 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Rosen?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/rosenThe 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, “Rosen” — ranked 1441st in the United States (Census Bureau). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.