Rosita

Where Rosita comes from

Rosita 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. 1888
    First appearance
    #1,276 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1923
    Rosita Sokou born
    Greek journalist, author, playwright, translator
  3. 1925
    Rosita Quintana born
    Argentine-born Mexican actress, singer and songwriter
  4. 1935
    Peak, #779
    75 babies named Rosita — more than any year before or since.
  5. 1991
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #3,207.
In the dictionary

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

Namesakes
  • Rosita Quintana · Argentine-born Mexican actress, singer and songwriter, 1925–2021
  • Rosita Sokou · Greek journalist, author, playwright, translator, 1923–2021
  • Rosita Serrano · Chilean singer and actress, 1914–1997
  • Rosita Forbes · British writer and explorer, 1890–1967
  • Rosita Gandores · Spanish singer and Vedette, born 1938

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.