Meaning not yet researched.
Rosie: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 1,088 in 2025. Its best rank was #114 in 1910.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #114 in 1910; #283 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Rosie in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#283 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1910, at #114.
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Rosie: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 1,088 girls in 2025. Peak: #114 in 1910 · most girls in one year: 1,560 (1927).
In 2025, 1,088 US girls were named Rosie, making it the 283rd most common girls’ name of the year, up 27 places from #310 in 2024. That is 96 more than the 992 girls named Rosie in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #114, reached in 1910. The most girls given the name in a single year was 1,560, in 1927. For comparison, it was #775 in 2015 and #229 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Rosie in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 106 babies with the name. In all, 86,026 US babies have been given the name, 99% of them girls and 0.5% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 14,409 babies named Rosie.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 6,810 US girls were named Rosie; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 1,088. In 2025 that was about 1 in 1,477 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Rosie ranked highest in Utah in 2025, at #104 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Rocio (13,762 babies since 1880), Rosia (3,506 babies since 1880), Rossie (2,586 babies since 1880) and Rosio (2,493 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Rosey, Rossi and Rossy are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Rosey (1,288), Rossi (688), Rossy (604), Rosea (133), Russie (92), Rozie (78), Rozzie (12), Rosiah (7), Rozia (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Rosie in the open dataset we use.
Rosie is listed as a nickname for Rose, Roseann, Roseanna, Rosemarie.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 11 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Utah | 41 | #104 | #335 |
| Maine | 9 | #127 | — |
| Idaho | 14 | #158 | — |
| Hawaii | 6 | #159 | — |
| Nevada | 15 | #174 | — |
| Tennessee | 42 | #184 | #1,218 |
| Kentucky | 25 | #190 | — |
| Ohio | 57 | #194 | #1,143 |
| Louisiana | 22 | #203 | — |
| Montana | 6 | #204 | — |
| Minnesota | 26 | #219 | #990 |
| Arizona | 31 | #226 | #770 |
| South Carolina | 22 | #227 | #864 |
| Massachusetts | 25 | #234 | #938 |
| Nebraska | 10 | #241 | #404 |
| Iowa | 15 | #245 | — |
| Kansas | 13 | #252 | — |
| Washington | 29 | #253 | #1,263 |
| New Jersey | 31 | #273 | #1,151 |
| New York | 62 | #274 | #847 |
| Colorado | 23 | #275 | — |
| California | 115 | #284 | #443 |
| Connecticut | 11 | #292 | — |
| Wisconsin | 19 | #293 | #956 |
| Oregon | 13 | #294 | #512 |
| Arkansas | 11 | #294 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 37 | #301 | #863 |
| Michigan | 30 | #303 | #655 |
| Georgia | 34 | #319 | #955 |
| Illinois | 34 | #323 | #1,045 |
| Missouri | 19 | #326 | #928 |
| Indiana | 22 | #328 | #568 |
| Oklahoma | 13 | #335 | #741 |
| Maryland | 16 | #352 | — |
| Alabama | 14 | #361 | — |
| North Carolina | 28 | #401 | #627 |
| Florida | 43 | #440 | #1,043 |
| Virginia | 18 | #460 | — |
| Texas | 60 | #537 | #985 |
| Mississippi | 5 | #618 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1,088 | #283 | — | — |
| 2024 | 992 | #310 | — | — |
| 2023 | 785 | #392 | — | — |
| 2022 | 747 | #424 | — | — |
| 2021 | 686 | #457 | — | — |
| 2020 | 652 | #471 | — | — |
| 2019 | 545 | #564 | — | — |
| 2018 | 486 | #619 | — | — |
| 2017 | 433 | #679 | — | — |
| 2016 | 396 | #721 | — | — |
| 2015 | 365 | #775 | — | — |
| 2014 | 327 | #846 | — | — |
| 2013 | 300 | #863 | — | — |
| 2012 | 225 | #1,104 | — | — |
| 2011 | 135 | #1,609 | — | — |
| 2010 | 129 | #1,657 | — | — |
| 2009 | 142 | #1,591 | — | — |
| 2008 | 142 | #1,604 | — | — |
| 2007 | 130 | #1,692 | — | — |
| 2006 | 126 | #1,679 | — | — |
| 2005 | 116 | #1,716 | — | — |
| 2004 | 107 | #1,791 | — | — |
| 2003 | 110 | #1,731 | — | — |
| 2002 | 126 | #1,507 | — | — |
| 2001 | 109 | #1,668 | — | — |
| 2000 | 101 | #1,741 | — | — |
| 1999 | 108 | #1,571 | — | — |
| 1998 | 150 | #1,223 | — | — |
| 1997 | 150 | #1,205 | — | — |
| 1996 | 130 | #1,316 | — | — |
| 1995 | 131 | #1,285 | — | — |
| 1994 | 110 | #1,452 | — | — |
| 1993 | 120 | #1,373 | — | — |
| 1992 | 119 | #1,390 | — | — |
| 1991 | 115 | #1,404 | — | — |
| 1990 | 157 | #1,119 | — | — |
| 1989 | 125 | #1,265 | — | — |
| 1988 | 120 | #1,245 | — | — |
| 1987 | 100 | #1,369 | — | — |
| 1986 | 119 | #1,191 | — | — |
| 1985 | 120 | #1,182 | — | — |
| 1984 | 137 | #1,038 | — | — |
| 1983 | 131 | #1,064 | — | — |
| 1982 | 156 | #955 | — | — |
| 1981 | 162 | #928 | — | — |
| 1980 | 154 | #962 | — | — |
| 1979 | 162 | #919 | — | — |
| 1978 | 160 | #899 | — | — |
| 1977 | 179 | #837 | — | — |
| 1976 | 166 | #834 | — | — |
| 1975 | 166 | #822 | — | — |
| 1974 | 152 | #862 | — | — |
| 1973 | 225 | #662 | — | — |
| 1972 | 234 | #653 | — | — |
| 1971 | 262 | #635 | — | — |
| 1970 | 255 | #647 | — | — |
| 1969 | 294 | #577 | — | — |
| 1968 | 289 | #562 | — | — |
| 1967 | 340 | #515 | — | — |
| 1966 | 381 | #479 | — | — |
| 1965 | 470 | #436 | — | — |
| 1964 | 541 | #419 | — | — |
| 1963 | 582 | #397 | 6 | #3,968 |
| 1962 | 599 | #384 | 7 | #3,576 |
| 1961 | 679 | #368 | — | — |
| 1960 | 745 | #354 | 9 | #3,037 |
| 1959 | 807 | #335 | — | — |
| 1958 | 917 | #294 | 5 | #4,412 |
| 1957 | 983 | #287 | 8 | #3,208 |
| 1956 | 1,013 | #269 | 5 | #4,375 |
| 1955 | 1,024 | #265 | — | — |
| 1954 | 1,072 | #250 | — | — |
| 1953 | 999 | #257 | 7 | #3,381 |
| 1952 | 1,004 | #247 | — | — |
| 1951 | 1,088 | #233 | — | — |
| 1950 | 1,105 | #229 | 9 | #2,736 |
| 1949 | 1,212 | #216 | — | — |
| 1948 | 1,151 | #215 | 7 | #3,270 |
| 1947 | 1,209 | #214 | — | — |
| 1946 | 1,183 | #205 | 9 | #2,666 |
| 1945 | 1,095 | #186 | 6 | #3,271 |
| 1944 | 1,090 | #193 | 8 | #2,828 |
| 1943 | 1,127 | #193 | 15 | #1,980 |
| 1942 | 1,110 | #189 | 13 | #2,130 |
| 1941 | 1,107 | #177 | 14 | #1,981 |
| 1940 | 1,119 | #174 | 21 | #1,514 |
| 1939 | 1,160 | #171 | 11 | #2,265 |
| 1938 | 1,194 | #170 | 7 | #3,119 |
| 1937 | 1,121 | #178 | 9 | #2,643 |
| 1936 | 1,111 | #173 | 16 | #1,783 |
| 1935 | 1,188 | #166 | 17 | #1,748 |
| 1934 | 1,240 | #160 | 16 | #1,843 |
| 1933 | 1,180 | #155 | 12 | #2,193 |
| 1932 | 1,314 | #152 | 16 | #1,910 |
| 1931 | 1,207 | #155 | 10 | #2,618 |
| 1930 | 1,345 | #153 | 12 | #2,424 |
| 1929 | 1,366 | #154 | 21 | #1,664 |
| 1928 | 1,385 | #156 | 13 | #2,369 |
| 1927 | 1,560 | #152 | 21 | #1,740 |
| 1926 | 1,492 | #156 | 14 | #2,280 |
| 1925 | 1,516 | #156 | 8 | #3,351 |
| 1924 | 1,482 | #163 | 7 | #3,797 |
| 1923 | 1,395 | #166 | 14 | #2,311 |
| 1922 | 1,385 | #165 | 5 | #4,844 |
| 1921 | 1,313 | #171 | 9 | #3,174 |
| 1920 | 1,396 | #162 | 7 | #3,761 |
| 1919 | 1,398 | #158 | 6 | #4,090 |
| 1918 | 1,190 | #174 | 13 | #2,371 |
| 1917 | 1,099 | #179 | 6 | #3,901 |
| 1916 | 1,030 | #181 | 5 | #4,403 |
| 1915 | 975 | #174 | 17 | #1,767 |
| 1914 | 957 | #153 | 11 | #2,083 |
| 1913 | 744 | #156 | 8 | #2,235 |
| 1912 | 793 | #138 | — | — |
| 1911 | 643 | #131 | — | — |
| 1910 | 736 | #114 | — | — |
| 1909 | 604 | #119 | — | — |
| 1908 | 502 | #139 | — | — |
| 1907 | 511 | #132 | 5 | #1,509 |
| 1906 | 497 | #128 | — | — |
| 1905 | 500 | #127 | — | — |
| 1904 | 468 | #127 | — | — |
| 1903 | 423 | #132 | — | — |
| 1902 | 417 | #135 | — | — |
| 1901 | 330 | #148 | — | — |
| 1900 | 576 | #116 | — | — |
| 1899 | 332 | #141 | — | — |
| 1898 | 330 | #154 | — | — |
| 1897 | 339 | #141 | — | — |
| 1896 | 314 | #150 | — | — |
| 1895 | 322 | #141 | 5 | #1,212 |
| 1894 | 288 | #152 | — | — |
| 1893 | 242 | #162 | — | — |
| 1892 | 249 | #156 | — | — |
| 1891 | 264 | #136 | — | — |
| 1890 | 238 | #150 | — | — |
| 1889 | 239 | #142 | — | — |
| 1888 | 211 | #150 | — | — |
| 1887 | 162 | #152 | — | — |
| 1886 | 133 | #175 | — | — |
| 1885 | 142 | #154 | — | — |
| 1884 | 152 | #140 | — | — |
| 1883 | 115 | #155 | — | — |
| 1882 | 140 | #130 | — | — |
| 1881 | 85 | #158 | — | — |
| 1880 | 106 | #143 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).