In 2025, 86 US girls were named Rosalinda, making it the 2,169th most common girls’ name of the year, up 239 places from #2,408 in 2024. That is 10 more than the 76 girls named Rosalinda in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #464, reached in 1949. The most girls given the name in a single year was 334, in 2000. For comparison, it was #2,101 in 2015 and #473 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Rosalinda in 106 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1914 with 8 babies. In all, 15,633 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1960s, with 2,522 babies named Rosalinda.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 980 US girls were named Rosalinda; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 118. In 2025 that was about 1 in 18,689 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Rosalinda ranked highest in Arizona in 2025, at #1,187 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Rosalind (27,136 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Roselinda and Rosalynda are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Linda, Rosa, Rose and Roz.
Meaning
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Dutch and Italian. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.