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Rosalind

Rosalind: name meaning, origin & popularity

Meaning
“gentle horse”
Origin
Germanic
Say it
ROZ-uh-lind · 3 syllables
Used for
Girls

Rosalind comes from an Old Germanic name elementally related to horse and softness, though it was later associated with Latin rosa. Shakespeare used it for the heroine of As You Like It.

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How popular is Rosalind?

202444.0 per million US babies
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Drag the line or the slider to read any year. Values are per million US births recorded by Social Security. Records before about 1937 undercount births, so early peaks can look taller than they were.

Babies named Rosalind in 2024148

2024 rank#1,468 girls

Peak year1942

Total US babies since 188026,995

Rosalind is rising: use over the last five years is 2.3× what it was a decade earlier.

Names like Rosalind

Variants, related forms and names with the same roots.

  • Rosalyngentle horse · Germanic
  • Roslyngentle horse; pretty rose association · English
  • Rosalynnpretty rose · English
  • Emmawhole, universal · Germanic
  • Ameliawork · Germanic
  • Ellaall, completely · Germanic
  • Alicenoble type · Germanic
  • Adelinenoble · Germanic

Rosalind questions

What does the name Rosalind mean?

Rosalind means "gentle horse". It comes from Germanic. Rosalind comes from an Old Germanic name elementally related to horse and softness, though it was later associated with Latin rosa. Shakespeare used it for the heroine of As You Like It.

Is Rosalind a boy or girl name?

Rosalind is mainly a girl's name in US records (100% of uses since 1880).

How popular is Rosalind?

148 US babies were named Rosalind in 2024. Its peak year was 1942.

How do you pronounce Rosalind?

Rosalind is usually pronounced ROZ-uh-lind.

Birth counts: US Social Security Administration national data, 1880–2024 (names given to 5+ babies of a sex in a year). How we write meanings.