Given name
Rosalinda
Rosalinda is a feminine given name from Spanish. It is used in Italian, Tagalog, and Cebuano.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Rosalinda is a variant of Rosalind. Rosalind has been associated with German and English naming traditions. The precise derivation is uncertain.
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1914. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin. Rosalinda is a variant of Rosalind. The history of Rosalind gives this family its wider story. Edmund Spenser used Rosalind for a shepherdess, and Shakespeare gave it to the heroine of As You Like It. The appealing rose association is a later reinterpretation of an older Germanic name, rather than its original formation.
Combines direct and name-family evidence
Rosalinda through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 15,633
- 5 boys · 15,628 girls
- Most popular year
- 2000
- 334 babies
- 2025
- 86
- #2,169 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −8%
- Steady
Where it’s given
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 86 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 2,169 among girls’ names. Average annual use for girls was 7.8% lower in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. Its largest published annual count for girls was 334 in 2000. In 2025, Texas had the largest reported state-level birth count for girls with this name (20). Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 22,652 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.
Rosalinda’s family of names
Rosalinda has a related form in Rosalind. In Italian usage, Rosalinda has a conventional equivalent in the English form Rosalind.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
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 3
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Rosalinda
- Rosalinda CelentanoItalian actress (1968-)
- Rosalinda SerfatyArgentina-Venezuelan actressborn 1969
- Gypsy-Rose BlanchardAmerican internet personality (born 1991)
- Rosalinda CannavòItalian actress, singer and modelborn 1992
- Rosalinde von Ossietzky-PalmGerman-born Swedish pacifist1919–2000
- Rosalinda OrosaFilipino writer1928–2023
- Rosalinda Buesodiplomat of Hondurasborn 1977
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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