Rossella
given name · Latin script
Meaning: de Rosso com sufixo feminino singular -ella
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 25 countries · latest register: ISTAT, 2024
/rosːelːa/(machine-generated) Italian · model-generated · uncertain
Rossella is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country.
- ITItaly≈1 in 550(inferred from the name graph)
- CHSwitzerland≈1 in 20Kfew records
- BEBelgium≈1 in 110Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). 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.
- Italy (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 183 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 549 (inferred from the name graph)
≈110,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Italy, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)de Rosso com sufixo feminino singular -ella
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Rossella 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IT Italy | #244 | ≈110,000 est. | ≈1 in 549 | 61 | Rossella | 183 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈570 est. | ≈1 in 146K | — | Rossella | 57 |
| CH Switzerland | — | ≈450 est. | ≈1 in 20K | — | Rossella | 27 |
| US United States | — | 267 | 1 in 1.2M | 265 | Rossella | 119 |
| FR France | — | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 422K | — | Rossella | 107 |
| BE Belgium | — | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 108K | — | Rossella | 16 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈64 est. | ≈1 in 143K | 2 | Rossella | 14 |
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: ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024). 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)Rossella is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Rossa di capelli
as a nameIl grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…
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)- Rossella Falkb. 1926ITItalian actress (1926-2013)
- Rossella Comob. 1937ITItalian actress (1937–1986)
- Rossella Izzob. 1953ITItalian actress, voice actress, film director and screenwriter
- Rossella Drudib. 1963ITItalian writer
- Rossella Bresciab. 1971ITItalian television presenter
- Rossella Errab. 1974ITItalian TV personality and accountant
- Rossella Biscottib. 1978ITItalian-Dutch photographer and installation artist (born 1978)
- Rossella Gregoriob. 1990ITItalian fencer
- Rossella Fiamingob. 1991ITItalian fencer
- Rossella Rattob. 1993ITItalian cyclist
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)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)43 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 25 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 265 | #31,866 |
| IT Italy | ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend) | 2024 | 61 | #281 |
| IT Italy | ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend) | 2022 | 58 | #309 |
| IT Italy | ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend) | 2023 | 52 | #316 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2021 | 7 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 2 | #31,866 |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024) | 2006 | 2 | #1,302 |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — Vornamen der Geborenen (1984–present) | 2006 | 1 | #2,453 |
| IT Italy | Il Grande Libro dei Nomi per Bebè (2020) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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 Rossella mean, and where does it come from?
- de Rosso com sufixo feminino singular -ella Recorded by Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos.
- What are other forms of the name Rossella?
- In the etymology graph, Rosetta, Rosina and Rosella are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Rossella?
- In Italian /rosːelːa/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Rossella a male or female name?
- Rossella is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: United States (Census Bureau, 2020) and Spain (INE).
- In which country does Rossella have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 107 thousand people named Rossella in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled rossella.
- How common is the name Rossella?
- In the United States, the national register counted 267 people named Rossella in 2020, about 1 in 1.2 million residents.
- How common is Rossella compared with other names?
- In Italy, Rossella is the 244th most common given name of 102,667 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/rossellaThe 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, “Rossella” — the 244th most common given name in Italy. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.