Rosamond
Rosamond is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 575th, in 1912.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 1916111 births
- Best rank
- #575in 1912
- Since 1881
- 3,283people given the name
The story in the numbers
3,283 girls have been named Rosamond in the United States since 1881, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1916, with 111 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 111 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1923, and the 1920s alone account for 27%. It has spent 45 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Rosamond | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 61 | |
| 1890s | 131 | |
| 1900s | 283 | |
| 1910s | 855 | |
| 1920s | 895 | |
| 1930s | 420 | |
| 1940s | 265 | |
| 1950s | 169 | |
| 1960s | 49 | |
| 1970s | 45 | |
| 1980s | 39 | |
| 1990s | 33 | |
| 2000s | 22 | |
| 2010s | 16 |
In 1916, its biggest year
Rosamond was the 646th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1916 were Mary, Helen, Dorothy, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1916.
Names that rose and fell with Rosamond
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Leolapeak 1920
- Iolapeak 1918
- Idellpeak 1921
- Beatricepeak 1921
- Inezpeak 1920
- Ionepeak 1920
- Alvertapeak 1918
- Albertapeak 1919
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.