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Rose

Girls' name · Early 20th-century perennial

Living in the US
~204,900 survival-weighted estimate
2025 rank
#114 among girls
Births in 2025
2,386 502,704 since 1880
Typical age
66 years, median

Rose popularity over time

Rose rank by birth year, 1880–2025Rose ranked #30 in 1880 and #114 in 2025. Its best rank in the period was #14, in 1911.#100#114best #14 in 191118901920195019802010
Rank among US baby names by birth year, 1880–2025. Lower is more popular; the scale is logarithmic so the top of the chart is not compressed.

1917 is the peak year for Rose, with 9,821 births. The name is already in use in 1880, where the data begins. Across the record, 81 years put Rose in the top 100.

In 2025 it ranked #114 with 2,386 births. Compared with 2015, births are up 22%.

Babies named Rose per yearPeaks at 9,821 births in 1917.9,821 in 1917018901920195019802010
Recorded US births by year. The peak is labelled; the axis starts at zero.

How many people are named Rose?

An estimated 204,900 living Americans are called Rose. SSA has recorded 502,704 births under the name since 1880.

This is a survival-weighted estimate, not a headcount: every recorded birth year is multiplied by the chance someone born that year is still alive, using the SSA period life table. How the estimate works.

How old is the average Rose?

Median age among living Roses: 66. Most living bearers were born in the 1950s. By the site’s era rules that makes Rose a early 20th-century perennial name.

Your Rose

Ages of living people named RoseHalf of living Roses are older than 66 and half younger.median 66020406080100
Estimated living bearers by age today. Each bar is a birth year, weighted by the chance someone born then is still alive.

Where Rose is most common

District of Columbia uses the name 3.5× as often as the country as a whole. Rhode Island, New Hampshire and Maine follow.

Where Rose is used more than average5 states use the name Rose more than the national average.Alaska: 2.2× the national rateAKMaine: 2.4× the national rateMEVermont: not over-representedVTNew Hampshire: 2.4× the national rateNHWashington: not over-representedWAIdaho: not over-representedIDMontana: not over-representedMTNorth Dakota: not over-representedNDMinnesota: not over-representedMNIllinois: not over-representedILWisconsin: not over-representedWIMichigan: not over-representedMINew York: not over-representedNYOregon: not over-representedORNevada: not over-representedNVWyoming: not over-representedWYSouth Dakota: not over-representedSDIowa: not over-representedIAIndiana: not over-representedINOhio: not over-representedOHPennsylvania: not over-representedPANew Jersey: not over-representedNJConnecticut: not over-representedCTRhode Island: 2.4× the national rateRICalifornia: not over-representedCAUtah: not over-representedUTColorado: not over-representedCONebraska: not over-representedNEMissouri: not over-representedMOKentucky: not over-representedKYWest Virginia: not over-representedWVVirginia: not over-representedVAMaryland: not over-representedMDDelaware: not over-representedDEMassachusetts: not over-representedMAArizona: not over-representedAZNew Mexico: not over-representedNMKansas: not over-representedKSArkansas: not over-representedARTennessee: not over-representedTNNorth Carolina: not over-representedNCSouth Carolina: not over-representedSCDistrict of Columbia: 3.5× the national rateDCOklahoma: not over-representedOKLouisiana: not over-representedLAMississippi: not over-representedMSAlabama: not over-representedALGeorgia: not over-representedGAHawaii: not over-representedHITexas: not over-representedTXFlorida: not over-representedFL
Same as national3× or more
Location quotient, 2016–2025. Shaded states use the name more than the country does, relative to their own births. Exact figures are in the table below.
States where Rose is over-represented, 2016–2025. The location quotient compares the state's share of the name with the national share.
StateBirthsvs national rate
District of Columbia 148 3.5×
Rhode Island 99 2.4×
New Hampshire 128 2.4×
Maine 116 2.4×
Alaska 69 2.2×

Rose in England and Wales

In England and Wales, Rose ranked #67 in 2025 on 666 births.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Counts below three are suppressed by ONS.

Where the name Rose comes from

As an English, Scottish, French, Danish, Jewish (Yiddish רויז), and German surname, all from the noun rose. Also adapted from foreign forms of the same meaning such as Hungarian Rózsa, Rozsa, Slovak Róža, Czech Roza, etc. Compare Larose. The surname may be matronymic, but more probably topographic from residence by rose bushes or the sign of a rose, or a nickname from rosy complexion. Also as an English surname, from a Norman name of Germanic origins, likely made up of Proto-Germanic *hrod (“fame”) and *heid (“kind, sort, type”), ultimately evolved from *hrōþiz.

Etymology summarised from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0. Wiktionary entry.

Notable people named Rose

Ordered by how many Wikipedia language editions have an article about them — a measure of reach, not of importance.
NameKnown forYearsEditions
Rose of Lima Dominican saint from Peru 1586–1617 58
Rose Byrne Australian actress 1979 57
Rose McGowan American actress, director and activist 1973 52
Rose Leslie Scottish actress 1987 48
Rose Marie American actress, singer, comedian, and vaudeville performer 1923–2017 45
Rose Francine Rogombé Gabonese politician 1942–2015 45
Rose Christiane Raponda Vice President of Gabon in 2023 1963 43
Rose Kennedy American philanthropist and mother of John F. Kennedy 1890–1995 38
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The sharpest rise. Births under this name jumped from 666 in 1997 to 1,019 in 1998 — 1.5 times over in a single year.

Birth records contain the rise and nothing about its cause. This site does not supply one.

People and dates from Wikidata (CC0), limited to those with an English Wikipedia article who are known by this name as their first name.

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