Rosey

Where Rosey comes from

The dictionaries list Rosey as a given name — a diminutive of the female given name Rose and other related names, variant of Rosie — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1881
    First appearance
    #830 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1890
    Peak, #727
    14 babies named Rosey — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1891
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
In the dictionary
  • A diminutive of the female given name Rose and other related names, variant of Rosie.
  • A diminutive of the male given name Roosevelt.
Namesakes

No widely known Rosey turns up in the encyclopedias yet — the name is still all theirs to make famous.

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.