Rosie

Where Rosie comes from

Diminutives + -ie.
— Wiktionary's entry for Rosie
  • 2 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #141 among girls — 106 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1910
    Peak, #114
    736 babies named Rosie — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1962
    Rosie O'Donnell born
    American comedian, producer, actress, and television personality
  4. 1964
    Rosie Perez born
    American actress
  5. 2025
    The comeback
    Back to #283 after sinking to #1,781 in 2004.
In the dictionary
  • A diminutive of the female given name Rose, Rosemary and other female names related to the rose. Also used as a formal given name.
Namesakes
  • Rosie O'Donnell · American comedian, producer, actress, and television personality, born 1962
  • Rosie Perez · American actress, born 1964
  • Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight · American Wikipedia editor, focused on closing its gender gap; Knight of Serbia, born 1953
  • Rosie Malek-Yonan · Assyrian actress, author, director, public figure and human rights activist, born 1965
  • Rosie Reyes · Mexican tennis player, 1939–2024

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.