girls:
160.9k births since 1882
#245 (96th percentile)
boys:
358 births since 1923
#4228 (8th percentile)
overall:
161.2k births since 1882
#468 (94th percentile)
The name Rosemary is the #468 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 161,220 recorded births since 1882. This represents the 94.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 94.0% of all names). For girls, it ranks #245 (95.7% percentile) for all time with 160,862 births since 1882. For boys, it ranks #4,228 (7.7% percentile) for all time with 358 births since 1923.
Rosemary first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1882 (1882 for girls and 1923 for boys).
The name Rosemary has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.8% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Rosemary reached its peak popularity in 1946, achieving the 88.9% percentile (ranked #74) with 2,781 births per million. The name was most common in 1946, with 2,781 births per million (ranked 88.9% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2008, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Rosemary ranks #294 for girls (69.0% percentile) with 564 births per million, which is 20.3% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Rosemary reached its peak popularity in 1931, achieving the 1.7% percentile (ranked #511) with 13 births per million. The name was most common in 1931, with 13 births per million (ranked 1.7% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1990.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Rosemary".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Rosemary. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 58.3% confident that Rosemary is pronounced as ROHZ-meh-ree, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is ROHZ-MEH-ree, at 33.3% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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