Given name · also Latin
Rosalie
“of the rose garden”
Rosalie is used as a given name. One Italian interpretation is “of the rose garden.”
Original ItalianRosalia
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Italian interpretation is “of the rose garden.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Latin.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1880. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Rosalie through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 84,145
- 96 boys · 84,049 girls
- Most popular year
- 1938
- 3,770 babies
- 2025
- 1,797
- #171 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +20%
- Rising
Where it’s given
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 1,797 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 171 among girls’ names. Average annual use for girls was 20.3% higher in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. Its largest published annual count for girls was 3,758 in 1938. In 2025, Texas had the largest reported state-level birth count for girls with this name (201). Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 42,079 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Rosalie’s family of names
In German usage, Rosalie has a diminutive in ROSI. Rosalie shares a linguistic root with Rosalia. In German usage, Rosalie has a related form in Rosa.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Rosalie has relatives in 13 languages. Lines run from its Latin roots to each of them.
13 related names in 13 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 25
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 13
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- Rozaliiaequivalent
- Rozáliaequivalent
- Rozalijaequivalent
- Rozálieequivalent
- РозалиRussian
- Rôzaliyecognate · Walloon
- Lokaliaborrowing · Hawaiian
- RůženaCzech
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See also 5
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
People named Rosalie
- Saint RosaliaItalian saint of Palermo, honored for divine intermediation during the plague there1130–1170
- Rosalie FilleulFrench painter (1752-1794)
- Rosalie AbellaCanadian juristborn 1946
- Rosalie DuthéFrench courtesan1748–1830
- Rosalie CrutchleyBritish actress (1920–1997)
- Rosalie OlivecronaSwedish writer, editor1823–1898
- Rosalie GicandaRwandan queen1928–1994
- Rosalie Slaughter MortonAmerican physician (1876–1968)
- Rosalie GanguéChadian athlete (* 1975)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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