girls:
176.5k births since 1880
#223 (96th percentile)
boys:
1.2k births since 1887
#3432 (25th percentile)
overall:
177.7k births since 1880
#430 (94th percentile)
The name Rosa is the #430 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 177,677 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 94.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 94.5% of all names). For girls, it ranks #223 (96.1% percentile) for all time with 176,504 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #3,432 (25.1% percentile) for all time with 1,173 births since 1887.
Rosa has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1887 for boys).
The name Rosa has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.3% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Rosa reached its peak popularity in 1919, achieving the 81.6% percentile (ranked #110) with 1,864 births per million. The name was most common in 1880, with 5,194 births per million (ranked 76.4% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2017, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Rosa ranks #548 for girls (42.2% percentile) with 252 births per million, which is 4.8% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Rosa reached its peak popularity in 1933, achieving the 3.8% percentile (ranked #501) with 25 births per million. The name was most common in 1896, with 54 births per million (ranked 0.9% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2003.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Rosa".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Rosa. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Rosa is pronounced as ROH-zuh, which has 2 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like R OW1 Z AH0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
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