girls:
1.8k births since 1883
#3979 (30th percentile)
boys:
768 births since 1891
#3819 (17th percentile)
overall:
2.6k births since 1883
#5277 (32nd percentile)
The name Rossie is the #5,277 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,572 recorded births since 1883. This represents the 31.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 31.8% of all names). For girls, it ranks #3,979 (30.4% percentile) for all time with 1,804 births since 1883. For boys, it ranks #3,819 (16.7% percentile) for all time with 768 births since 1891.
Rossie first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1883 (1883 for girls and 1891 for boys). Birth data for Rossie is available in 120 out of the 141 years between 1883 and 2023 (110 years for girls and 74 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Rossie has been given predominantly to girls, with 70.1% of all recorded births being female. In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Rossie were girls.
For girls, Rossie reached its peak popularity in 1919, achieving the 9.8% percentile (ranked #536) with 54 births per million. The name was most common in 1891, with 117 births per million (ranked 6.3% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2021, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Rossie ranks #947 for girls (0.0% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 2.4% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Rossie reached its peak popularity in 1919, achieving the 4.1% percentile (ranked #513) with 27 births per million. The name was most common in 1900, with 62 births per million (ranked 2.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1996.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Rossie".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Rossie. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 66.0% confident that Rossie is pronounced as RAW-see, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is RAH-see, at 34.0% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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