Rosario

Where Rosario comes from

Rosario hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1896
    First appearance
    #1,583 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1925
    Rosario Castellanos born
    Mexican writer
  3. 1938
    Mostly girls from here
    Until now more boys than girls got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
  4. 1953
    Peak, #741
    152 babies named Rosario — more than any year before or since.
  5. 1979
    Rosario Dawson born
    American actress
  6. 2015
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #2,590.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Rosario Dawson · American actress, born 1979
  • Rosario Castellanos · Mexican writer, 1925–1974
  • Rosario Flores · Spanish singer and actress, born 1963
  • Rosario Murillo · Nicaraguan politician and poet; co-president of Nicaragua since 2025, born 1951
  • Rosario Fernández · Peruvian lawyer and politician, born 1955

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.