Rosalie
- Pronunciation
- [Ro-sa-lie]
- Gender
- Female
- Meaning
- Rose
- Origin
- Italian
About the Name Rosalie
Rosalie is the French diminutive form of Rosa (Latin for "rose") with the French diminutive ending -ie. The name has multiple medieval anchors: Saint Rosalie of Palermo (1130–1166, Sicilian noblewoman who lived as a hermit and is patron saint of Palermo, Italy) and Saint Rose of Viterbo (13th-century Italian Franciscan tertiary).
The name has been used continuously in French and Italian Catholic naming traditions for centuries, and English-language adoption accelerated through the 19th and 20th centuries. Notable bearers include American First Lady Rosalynn Carter (1927–2023, wife of US President Jimmy Carter — using the alternate Rosalynn spelling), American actress Rosalie Allen, and the fictional Rosalie Hale of Stephenie Meyer's Twilight series, which gave the name a substantial millennial-era American naming register.
The contemporary American Rosalie surge is part of the broader 21st-century vintage-revival wave alongside Eleanor and Adeline. The name climbed from outside the US top 500 in 2000 to the US top 200 girls' rank by 2014 and the top 200 since. The name's appeal is its layered French-Catholic register combined with three flowing syllables — the in-built rose imagery (one of the most-symbolically loaded flowers in Western tradition), the saint-and-literary pedigree, and tonal warmth distinctive to French-influenced names. Common nicknames Rose, Rosie, Rosa, Rose-Rose, and the rare Lee each carry distinct registers; the alternate spellings Rosalee, Rosaleigh, Rosalyn, and Rosalynn have their own SSA tracking. International forms include Rosalia (Italian/Spanish), Rosalie (French/Dutch, identical), Rozalia (Polish/Hungarian), and the related Rose family across European languages.
Source: U.S. Social Security Administration name data, 1880–2024 (methodology). By Marvin Tang.
Quick Facts About Rosalie
US Popularity History (1938–2025)
Annual US births named Rosalie by gender, from US Social Security Administration records. Peak year: 1938 with 3,758 girls named Rosalie (girl rank #66 that year).
Where it stands today: in 2025, ranked #171 for girls (1,797 US births). That's 105 places below its 1938 peak.
Source: US Social Security Administration. Limitations: US birth-certificate data only; names appearing fewer than 5 times in a given year are suppressed for privacy; spelling variants are counted separately. For names that ranked outside the US top 100 before year 2000, only the years they reached the top 100 are shown — the chart may have gaps for less-popular historical names.
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Where in the US Is Rosalie Most Popular?
Average girl-name rank within each state across 2016–2025 SSA records. A lower number means the name appears closer to the top of that state's girls-name rankings — a per-capita measure that isn't biased toward large states. For Rosalie the strongest states are Vermont, Rhode Island, New Hampshire.
Strongest girls-name states
| # | State | Avg rank | Births |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vermont | #86 | 24 |
| 2 | Rhode Island | #114 | 70 |
| 3 | New Hampshire | #136 | 86 |
| 4 | Alaska | #145 | 51 |
| 5 | Pennsylvania | #150 | 673 |
| 6 | Maine | #153 | 67 |
| 7 | Montana | #153 | 37 |
| 8 | Wisconsin | #154 | 322 |
| 9 | Kansas | #154 | 195 |
| 10 | Michigan | #156 | 522 |
Weakest girls-name states
| # | State | Avg rank | Births |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Georgia | #337 | 309 |
| 2 | Alabama | #333 | 149 |
| 3 | Maryland | #315 | 178 |
| 4 | Florida | #307 | 555 |
| 5 | South Carolina | #284 | 173 |
| 6 | Kentucky | #276 | 161 |
| 7 | Mississippi | #275 | 95 |
| 8 | New York | #261 | 634 |
| 9 | North Carolina | #253 | 394 |
| 10 | New Jersey | #247 | 313 |
Source: SSA state-level baby-name dataset 2016–2025. States with fewer than 3 years of data for Rosalie in this window are excluded. Births < 5 in a given state-year are suppressed by SSA for privacy.
Variant Forms
| Name | Meaning | Gender | Origin |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rozalia | Lily, Rose | Female | Hungarian |
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Side-by-side popularity charts and crossover years for Rosalie against today's most popular girls-name peers (top 8 by US births in the last 10 years of SSA records).
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