Rose
Rose is ranked 115th among girls in 2024 (2,376 births). Its best rank was 14th, in 1911, 1913.
- Rank in 2024
- #115up 9 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 2,3760.15% of girls
- Peak year
- 19179,783 births
- Best rank
- #14first in 1911
- Since 1880
- 500,276people given the name
The story in the numbers
498,158 girls have been named Rose in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1917, with 9,783 births — 0.90% of all girls recorded that year.
It is rising: its share of births is at least one and a half times what it was ten years ago (rank 194 → 115).
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1934, and the 1920s alone account for 17%. It has spent 145 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 81 of them in the top 100.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 2,118 boys have also been given it, 0.42% of the total.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Rose | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 11,064 | |
| 1890s | 21,134 | |
| 1900s | 28,106 | |
| 1910s | 74,690 | |
| 1920s | 85,305 | |
| 1930s | 59,111 | |
| 1940s | 51,643 | |
| 1950s | 66,688 | |
| 1960s | 31,858 | |
| 1970s | 11,387 | |
| 1980s | 9,834 | |
| 1990s | 8,487 | |
| 2000s | 9,566 | |
| 2010s | 17,511 | |
| 2020s | 11,774 |
In 1917, its biggest year
Rose was the 16th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1917 were Mary, Helen, Dorothy, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1917.
Names that rose and fell with Rose
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Easterpeak 1925
- Alicepeak 1921
- Letapeak 1918
- Louisepeak 1921
- Josefapeak 1925
- Nonapeak 1950
- Laurettapeak 1915
- Rosiepeak 1927
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.