The name pages

Rose

The 2025 national count puts Rose at #114, as settled as a name gets. The peak was 1917, a name your child would share with a great-aunt, which is quietly part of its charm.

Rose on the door plaque, from the book's opening page
Rose complete and glowing, from the book's payoff page
Meaning

What Rose carries

Free Name Kit

Rose’s free Name Kit

Five printables for Rose, drawn in your browser at print size the moment you ask: a name print for the wall, a nursery sign, a tracing sheet, a shortlist sheet, and twelve sibling names with the reason for each. Letter size, 300 dpi, in the site’s own hand.

  • Name print Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
  • Nursery sign The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
  • Tracing sheet The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
  • Shortlist sheet A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
  • Sibling names sheet Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.

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Popularity

Rose since 1880

Rose peaked in 1917 at #16; #114 in 2025.

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United States national data, Social Security Administration, through 2025, how we use it.

Where it lives

Where Rose is most common

By share of a state's recorded girls' names, Rose runs strongest in District of Columbia at 0.64% in 2025, then Wyoming and New Hampshire.

Share of the state's recorded names for that sex, from the Social Security Administration's state file; a name is listed in a state only when five or more babies received it there that year.

Related

Names that sit near Rose

Same shelf of the library: origin, era and shape, scored deterministically.

Browse: names starting with R · Latin names · all names

Questions

About Rose

1

How popular is the name Rose?

The 2025 national count puts Rose at #114, as settled as a name gets. Every point on the chart is the SSA's own count, back to 1880.

2

What does Rose mean?

The gloss on record reads “rose”, of Latin origin (Charlotte M. Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884)).

3

Is there a sibling name for Rose?

Nearest by the published recipe: Vivian, Mabel and Clara. The sibling matcher scores every common American name against the ones you already have.

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