Rosemary
The 2025 national count puts Rosemary at #251, and gathering speed. It crested back in 1947, and what is left is the good kind of familiar: heard of, rarely met.
Rosemary’s free Name Kit
Five printables for Rosemary, 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.
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.
Print on plain letter paper or heavier card; the sign and the print look best on matte stock.
Rosemary since 1882
Rosemary peaked in 1947 at #80; #251 in 2025.
United States national data, Social Security Administration, through 2025, how we use it.
Where Rosemary is most common
By share of a state's recorded girls' names, Rosemary runs strongest in Alaska at 0.48% in 2025, then District of Columbia and Hawaii.
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.
Names that sit near Rosemary
Same shelf of the library: origin, era and shape, scored deterministically.
Richard
#234 in 2025 · Teutonic
Rosalie
#171 in 2025 · Latin
Robert
#92 in 2025 · Teutonic
Mark
#245 in 2025 · Latin
Diana
#244 in 2025 · Latin
Jane
#221 in 2025 · Hebrew
Timothy
#203 in 2025 · Latin
Alan
#191 in 2025 · Latin
Browse: names starting with R · all names
About Rosemary
How common is Rosemary today?
The 2025 national count puts Rosemary at #251, and gathering speed. The full curve since 1882 is above, public federal data, redrawn, never estimated.
What does Rosemary mean?
Honestly: our cited sources are silent on Rosemary, and we would rather show you nothing than something made up.
Is there a sibling name for Rosemary?
The recipe puts Richard first, then Robert, on shared origin, a peak within fifteen years, matching syllables and a shared first letter. Run the sibling matcher with your own names for a list scored against them.
Get Rosemary’s free Name Kit
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