Given name & surname · also German
Rosen
Rosen is a surname from German, ultimately from Swedish. It is used in English and French.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Rosen comes from German, and ultimately from Swedish.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2018. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Rosen through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 10
- 10 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2018
- 5 babies
- 2025
- 5
- #13,506 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 5 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 13,506 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 275 as a first name in 2020; 20,943 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Rosen’s family of names
In Greek usage, Rosen as a surname is a transliteration of Ρόσεν.
The ring: spellings.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
People named Rosen
- Rosen PlevnelievBulgarian politicianborn 1964
- Rosen ZhelyazkovPrime Minister of Bulgaria in 2025born 1968
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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