Rosella
Rosella is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 79 births. Its best rank was 307th, in 1916.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 790.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 1924435 births
- Best rank
- #307in 1916
- Since 1880
- 15,909people given the name
The story in the numbers
15,909 girls have been named Rosella in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1924, with 435 births.
It is rising: its share of births is at least one and a half times what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1928, and the 1920s alone account for 25%. It has spent 74 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Rosella | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 254 | |
| 1890s | 502 | |
| 1900s | 960 | |
| 1910s | 2,847 | |
| 1920s | 3,948 | |
| 1930s | 2,681 | |
| 1940s | 1,546 | |
| 1950s | 906 | |
| 1960s | 522 | |
| 1970s | 318 | |
| 1980s | 203 | |
| 1990s | 170 | |
| 2000s | 238 | |
| 2010s | 471 | |
| 2020s | 343 |
In 1924, its biggest year
Rosella was the 320th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1924 were Mary, Dorothy, Helen, Betty and Margaret. See all of 1924.
Names that rose and fell with Rosella
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Ionapeak 1918
- Eldorapeak 1923
- Eunicepeak 1921
- Francespeak 1918
- Albertapeak 1919
- Berylpeak 1920
- Rozellapeak 1927
- Odessapeak 1920
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.