Meaning not yet researched.
Rosita: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 42 in 2025. Its best rank was #784 in 1935.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #784 in 1935; #3,634 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Rosita in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,634 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1935, at #784.
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Rosita: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 42 girls in 2025. Peak: #784 in 1935 · most girls in one year: 138 (1966).
In 2025, 42 US girls were named Rosita, making it the 3,634th most common girls’ name of the year, up 726 places from #4,360 in 2024. That is 9 more than the 33 girls named Rosita in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #784, reached in 1935. The most girls given the name in a single year was 138, in 1966. For comparison, it was #5,799 in 2015 and #817 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Rosita in 125 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1888 with 5 babies. In all, 6,726 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1950s, with 1,228 babies named Rosita.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 327 US girls were named Rosita; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 42. In 2025 that was about 1 in 38,268 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Rosa (178,588 babies since 1880) and Rosetta (28,205 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Rozita 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.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Dutch. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Rozita (23).
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 Rosita in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 42 | #3,634 | — | — |
| 2024 | 33 | #4,360 | — | — |
| 2023 | 38 | #3,970 | — | — |
| 2022 | 37 | #4,028 | — | — |
| 2021 | 34 | #4,225 | — | — |
| 2020 | 23 | #5,461 | — | — |
| 2019 | 34 | #4,250 | — | — |
| 2018 | 26 | #5,120 | — | — |
| 2017 | 34 | #4,294 | — | — |
| 2016 | 26 | #5,256 | — | — |
| 2015 | 23 | #5,799 | — | — |
| 2014 | 22 | #5,959 | — | — |
| 2013 | 19 | #6,676 | — | — |
| 2012 | 17 | #7,394 | — | — |
| 2011 | 18 | #7,067 | — | — |
| 2010 | 29 | #4,947 | — | — |
| 2009 | 25 | #5,677 | — | — |
| 2008 | 21 | #6,521 | — | — |
| 2007 | 50 | #3,368 | — | — |
| 2006 | 38 | #3,980 | — | — |
| 2005 | 33 | #4,250 | — | — |
| 2004 | 22 | #5,718 | — | — |
| 2003 | 23 | #5,375 | — | — |
| 2002 | 34 | #3,868 | — | — |
| 2001 | 34 | #3,851 | — | — |
| 2000 | 36 | #3,647 | — | — |
| 1999 | 27 | #4,283 | — | — |
| 1998 | 31 | #3,811 | — | — |
| 1997 | 28 | #3,983 | — | — |
| 1996 | 36 | #3,289 | — | — |
| 1995 | 41 | #2,922 | — | — |
| 1994 | 39 | #3,028 | — | — |
| 1993 | 45 | #2,711 | — | — |
| 1992 | 40 | #2,964 | — | — |
| 1991 | 34 | #3,278 | — | — |
| 1990 | 39 | #2,945 | — | — |
| 1989 | 43 | #2,646 | — | — |
| 1988 | 50 | #2,270 | — | — |
| 1987 | 49 | #2,226 | — | — |
| 1986 | 43 | #2,372 | — | — |
| 1985 | 38 | #2,581 | — | — |
| 1984 | 58 | #1,860 | — | — |
| 1983 | 60 | #1,793 | — | — |
| 1982 | 67 | #1,701 | — | — |
| 1981 | 74 | #1,589 | — | — |
| 1980 | 75 | #1,568 | — | — |
| 1979 | 54 | #1,942 | — | — |
| 1978 | 54 | #1,856 | — | — |
| 1977 | 55 | #1,852 | — | — |
| 1976 | 66 | #1,545 | — | — |
| 1975 | 54 | #1,751 | — | — |
| 1974 | 63 | #1,549 | — | — |
| 1973 | 77 | #1,328 | — | — |
| 1972 | 79 | #1,301 | — | — |
| 1971 | 81 | #1,334 | — | — |
| 1970 | 100 | #1,163 | — | — |
| 1969 | 100 | #1,106 | — | — |
| 1968 | 93 | #1,113 | — | — |
| 1967 | 103 | #1,016 | — | — |
| 1966 | 138 | #854 | — | — |
| 1965 | 97 | #1,066 | — | — |
| 1964 | 118 | #981 | — | — |
| 1963 | 89 | #1,161 | — | — |
| 1962 | 129 | #937 | — | — |
| 1961 | 115 | #1,013 | — | — |
| 1960 | 117 | #998 | — | — |
| 1959 | 121 | #960 | — | — |
| 1958 | 129 | #905 | — | — |
| 1957 | 128 | #902 | — | — |
| 1956 | 111 | #962 | — | — |
| 1955 | 135 | #836 | — | — |
| 1954 | 125 | #845 | — | — |
| 1953 | 121 | #848 | — | — |
| 1952 | 131 | #789 | — | — |
| 1951 | 112 | #850 | — | — |
| 1950 | 115 | #817 | — | — |
| 1949 | 118 | #803 | — | — |
| 1948 | 106 | #852 | — | — |
| 1947 | 107 | #851 | — | — |
| 1946 | 82 | #925 | — | — |
| 1945 | 67 | #939 | — | — |
| 1944 | 73 | #898 | — | — |
| 1943 | 87 | #836 | — | — |
| 1942 | 89 | #813 | — | — |
| 1941 | 71 | #869 | — | — |
| 1940 | 61 | #923 | — | — |
| 1939 | 68 | #855 | — | — |
| 1938 | 73 | #828 | — | — |
| 1937 | 70 | #823 | — | — |
| 1936 | 67 | #825 | — | — |
| 1935 | 75 | #784 | — | — |
| 1934 | 60 | #887 | — | — |
| 1933 | 45 | #1,047 | — | — |
| 1932 | 45 | #1,066 | — | — |
| 1931 | 50 | #992 | — | — |
| 1930 | 54 | #1,011 | — | — |
| 1929 | 45 | #1,104 | — | — |
| 1928 | 40 | #1,220 | — | — |
| 1927 | 38 | #1,298 | — | — |
| 1926 | 34 | #1,383 | — | — |
| 1925 | 35 | #1,371 | — | — |
| 1924 | 43 | #1,223 | — | — |
| 1923 | 32 | #1,456 | — | — |
| 1922 | 31 | #1,501 | — | — |
| 1921 | 26 | #1,717 | — | — |
| 1920 | 28 | #1,579 | — | — |
| 1919 | 21 | #1,846 | — | — |
| 1918 | 24 | #1,679 | — | — |
| 1917 | 13 | #2,526 | — | — |
| 1916 | 9 | #3,212 | — | — |
| 1915 | 16 | #2,035 | — | — |
| 1914 | 22 | #1,378 | — | — |
| 1913 | 12 | #1,862 | — | — |
| 1912 | 13 | #1,604 | — | — |
| 1911 | 10 | #1,636 | — | — |
| 1910 | 11 | #1,503 | — | — |
| 1909 | 7 | #1,932 | — | — |
| 1907 | 9 | #1,489 | — | — |
| 1905 | 5 | #2,183 | — | — |
| 1903 | 6 | #1,757 | — | — |
| 1902 | 5 | #1,998 | — | — |
| 1901 | 6 | #1,640 | — | — |
| 1900 | 8 | #1,542 | — | — |
| 1899 | 6 | #1,560 | — | — |
| 1888 | 5 | #1,447 | — | — |
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).