Rosa

Where Rosa comes from

Borrowed from Latin rosa (“rose”).
— Wiktionary's entry for Rosa
  • Latin
  • 2 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1822
    Rosa Bonheur born
    French artist
  2. 1880
    First SSA year, and the peak
    #52 among girls with 507 babies — the first year on record, and still its best.
  3. 1913
    Rosa Parks born
    civil rights activist
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Latin; a Latinized variant of Rose.
Namesakes
  • Rosa Parks · civil rights activist, 1913–2005
  • Rosa Bonheur · French artist, 1822–1899
  • Rosa Salazar · American actress, born 1985
  • Rosa Mota · Portoguese athletics competitor, born 1958
  • Rosa Montero · Spanish writer, born 1951

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.