Rosenthal
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: (i) ‘person from Rosenthal or Rosendahl’, Germany (‘valley of roses’); (ii) an invented Jewish name based on German Rosental ‘valley of roses’
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈɹoʊzənˌθɔɫ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Rosenthal is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 20K(measured from records)
- CACanada≈1 in 21K
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 26K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 450 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 9.7K (inferred from the name graph)
16,583 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Israel, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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 from Rosenthal or Rosendahl’, Germany (‘valley of roses’); (ii) an invented Jewish name based on German Rosental ‘valley of roses’.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
How Rosenthal is read(measured from records)
Rosenthal is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English78%
(i) ‘person from Rosenthal or Rosendahl’, Germany (‘valley of roses’); (ii) an invented Jewish name based on German Rosental ‘valley of roses’.
as a nameEncyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
- German6.1%
zu Rosen + Tal; zeigt D/Th-Variation in Tal-Schreibungen. 2833 Träger.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 2: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen II, Konsonantismus
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Rosenthal 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 | — | 16,583 | 1 in 20K | 17K | Rosenthal | 450 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈2,500 est. | ≈1 in 26K | 796 | Rosenthal | 135 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 21K | — | Rosenthal | 121 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 42K | — | Rosenthal | 20 |
| IL Israel | — | ≈890 est. | ≈1 in 9.7K | — | Rosenthal | 57 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | ≈390 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Rosenthal | 13 |
| IE Ireland | — | ≈330 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Rosenthal | 10 |
| JM Jamaica | #504 | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Rosenthal | 2 |
16,583 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). 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)
- Joe Rosenthalb. 1911USAmerican photographer (1911–2006)
- A. M. Rosenthalb. 1922USAmerican journalist (1922–2006)
- Laurence Rosenthalb. 1926USAmerican composer
- Lee Grantb. 1927USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress
- Robert Rosenthalb. 1933USAmerican psychologist (1933–2024)
- Rick Rosenthalb. 1949USAmerican director
- Mark Rosenthalb. 1950USAmerican screenwriter and film director
- Jane Rosenthalb. 1956USAmerican film producer
- Philip Rosenthalb. 1960USAmerican television writer and producer
- David M. Rosenthalb. 1969USAmerican film director
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 31 sources across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 17K | #1,956 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 17K | #2,194 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 16K | #2,256 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 796 | #7,941 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
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 Rosenthal mean, and where does it come from?
- (i) ‘person from Rosenthal or Rosendahl’, Germany (‘valley of roses’); (ii) an invented Jewish name based on German Rosental ‘valley of roses’. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Rosenthal?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈɹoʊzənˌθɔɫ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Rosenthal have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 17 thousand people named Rosenthal, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled rosenthal.
- How common is the name Rosenthal?
- In the United States, the national register counted 16,583 people named Rosenthal in 2010, about 1 in 20 thousand residents.
- How common is Rosenthal compared with other names?
- In Jamaica, Rosenthal is the 504th most common surname of 50,451 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/rosenthalThe 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, “Rosenthal” — the 504th most common surname in Jamaica. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.