How Many People Are Named Rosella?

4,560

people named Rosella are alive in the United States today (estimate)

About 1 in 74,952 people in the US has this name

Based on 15,995 babies named Rosella in Social Security records from 1880 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.

Popularity Rank

#3,931

💎💎 Very Rare

Rank Among Girl Names

#2,217

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Peak Year

1924

435 births

Trend

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Stable (last 10 years)

📖 Name Origin & Meaning

Origin: Italian
Gender: Primarily Female

Meaning:

Italian diminutive of ROSA (1).

Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.

Related & Similar Names

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⚧ Gender Distribution

Female
100.0%
Male
0.0%

All of the babies given the name Rosella in the records were girls.

👥 Age Distribution

The average person named Rosella alive today is about 56 years old, and 57% are 60 or older. Half of them were between 26 and 81 in 2025.

Under 30 1,188
26.1%
30 to 59 755
16.6%
60 and over 2,617
57.4%

📈 Popularity Over Time

Rosella first appears in the records in 1880 and was given most often in 1924, to 435 babies. In 2025, 78 babies got the name.

Babies given the name each year, 1880 to 2025

🏆 Rank History

Rosella has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #307, in 1916. In 2025 it ranked #2,347.

Girls
Rank in 2025#2,347
Best rank#307 (1916)
Years in the top 100None
Rank in its biggest decade#335 in the 1920s

📍 State-Wise Distribution

People named Rosella alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).

More people named Rosella were born in Pennsylvania than in any other state: about 291 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Rosella was given 4.7 times as often in North Dakota, 4.6 times in Minnesota and 3.7 times in New Mexico.

Pennsylvania 291
California 192
Ohio 142
Minnesota 130
New York 104
Illinois 96
New Mexico 91
Michigan 87
Wisconsin 79
Texas 71
Kentucky 70
Indiana 69
Iowa 56
Missouri 53
North Dakota 48
West Virginia 41
Louisiana 35
Kansas 26
South Carolina 25
Nebraska 25
Oklahoma 24
South Dakota 20
Georgia 17
Colorado 17
Tennessee 16
North Carolina 16
Mississippi 13
Arizona 9
Washington 7
Florida 4
Montana 4
Virginia 4
Oregon 3
New Jersey 2
Arkansas 2

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