Rosita
Rosita is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 33 births. Its best rank was 784th, in 1935.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 330.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 1966139 births
- Best rank
- #784in 1935
- Since 1888
- 6,683people given the name
The story in the numbers
6,683 girls have been named Rosita in the United States since 1888, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1966, with 139 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 1960, and the 1950s alone account for 18%. It has spent 31 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Rosita | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 5 | |
| 1890s | 6 | |
| 1900s | 46 | |
| 1910s | 151 | |
| 1920s | 352 | |
| 1930s | 607 | |
| 1940s | 861 | |
| 1950s | 1,227 | |
| 1960s | 1,099 | |
| 1970s | 683 | |
| 1980s | 557 | |
| 1990s | 360 | |
| 2000s | 316 | |
| 2010s | 248 | |
| 2020s | 165 |
In 1966, its biggest year
Rosita was the 849th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1966 were Lisa, Kimberly, Mary, Michelle and Karen. See all of 1966.
Names that rose and fell with Rosita
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Janettepeak 1953
- Joypeak 1957
- Maritapeak 1954
- Carleenpeak 1961
- Evonnepeak 1957
- Janettapeak 1954
- Betsypeak 1959
- Twylapeak 1964
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.