Given name & surname
Roser
“a red-haired man”
Roser is used as a given name and a surname. One American interpretation is “a red-haired man.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One American interpretation is “a red-haired man.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is American.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1915. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Roser through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 16
- 0 boys · 16 girls
- Most popular year
- 1915
- 6 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 5 in 1927. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 6 in 1915. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,871 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.
Roser’s family of names
In Catalan usage, Roser has a conventional equivalent in the Spanish form Rosario. Roser has a related form in Rozer. In German usage, Roser as a surname has a related form in ROESER.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Roser
- Roser TarragóSpanish water polo playerborn 1993
- Roser BruCatalan-Chilean painter and engraver (1923–2021)
- Roser Suñé PascuetAndorran politicianborn 1960
- Roser CapdevilaCatalan writer (born 1939)
- Roser AguilarCatalan director and scriptwriterborn 1971
- Roser SerraSpanish footballerborn 1971
- Roser AmadóSpanish architect1944–2023
- RoserSpanish singerborn 1979
- Roser TapiasSpanish actressborn 1989
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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