How Many People Are Named Rosie?

36,140

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

About 1 in 9,457 people in the US has this name

Based on 86,026 babies named Rosie in Social Security records from 1880 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.

Popularity Rank

#1,127

💎 Rare

Rank Among Girl Names

#589

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Peak Year

1927

1,581 births

Trend

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Stable (last 10 years)

📖 Name Origin & Meaning

Origin: English
Pronunciation: ROZ-ee
Gender: Primarily Female

Meaning:

Diminutive of ROSE.

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

Same Sound, Other Spellings

These names are pronounced like Rosie in English. Counting Rosie and these spellings together, about 37,826 people alive in the US have the name.

Related & Similar Names

HrodohaidisRothaidRozaRuzhaRozalijaRozikaRužaRužicaRozálieRůženaRosaRoosRoosjeRosalieRosy

⚧ Gender Distribution

Female
99.7%
Male
0.3%

Almost all of the babies given the name Rosie (99.7%) were girls.

👥 Age Distribution

The average person named Rosie alive today is about 53 years old, and 58% are 60 or older. Half of them were between 22 and 77 in 2025.

Under 30 9,975
27.6%
30 to 59 5,043
14%
60 and over 21,122
58.4%

📈 Popularity Over Time

Rosie first appears in the records in 1880 and was given most often in 1927, to 1,581 babies. In 2025, 1,088 babies got the name.

Babies given the name each year, 1880 to 2025

🏆 Rank History

Rosie has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #114, in 1910. In 2025 it ranked #283.

Girls
Rank in 2025#283
Best rank#114 (1910)
Years in the top 100None
Rank in its biggest decade#161 in the 1920s

📍 State-Wise Distribution

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

More people named Rosie were born in Texas than in any other state: about 4,907 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Rosie was given 9 times as often in Mississippi, 3.8 times in Alabama and 3.8 times in Arkansas.

Texas 4,907
California 4,838
Mississippi 4,118
Alabama 2,205
Louisiana 1,367
Arkansas 1,272
Tennessee 1,102
Illinois 1,097
New York 997
Georgia 983
Arizona 791
Ohio 709
North Carolina 672
Michigan 608
Missouri 605
Florida 599
Indiana 533
Kentucky 523
New Mexico 462
Pennsylvania 434
Utah 412
Virginia 396
Oklahoma 361
Colorado 321
South Carolina 304
Washington 284
New Jersey 239
Minnesota 201
Maryland 184
Wisconsin 173
Kansas 153
Massachusetts 148
Oregon 146
West Virginia 137
Iowa 104
Nevada 90
Idaho 76
Nebraska 51
Connecticut 39
Montana 19
Maine 15
South Dakota 11
Hawaii 11
Alaska 8
Wyoming 8
District of Columbia 7
North Dakota 7
New Hampshire 5

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