Given name & surname
Roz
Roz is used as a given name and a surname. Roz is connected with Ros.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Roz 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
How it developed
In English use, Roz is used as a spelling variant of Ros.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1946. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin. Roz 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
Roz through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 64
- 0 boys · 64 girls
- Most popular year
- 1946
- 7 babies
- 2025
- 7
- #12,930 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 7 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 12,930 among girls’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 567 as a first name in 2020; 157 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.
Roz’s family of names
Roz has a related form in Rosalind. Roz has an alternative spelling in Ros.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
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.
People named Roz
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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