Rose
From Latin, it means simply the flower: a rose. In Poland it stays rare, given to only a handful of girls each year, so meeting one is the kind of thing you remember.
Rose Pronunciation
Rose is pronounced RO-se (/ˈrɔsɛ/).
What Rose means
Where Rose comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Rose comes from the Latin rosa, which meant nothing more elaborate than the flower. English speakers took that flower word and made it a personal name, so that by the Middle Ages Rose already appears on parish rolls across England. The meaning never wandered far. It still means the flower, kwiat róży in Polish.
Polish gave the name its own spelling and sound in Róża, with the accented ó. Read out a Róża on a class register and a few heads will turn, because the flower is sitting right there in the word, easy to hear.
The name also found a patron. Saint Rose of Lima, who died in 1617 and was canonized in 1671, became the first person born in the Americas to be declared a saint, and her feast carried the name into calendars well beyond Peru. Whether in English Rose or Polish Róża, the reference holds: the flower itself, rosa, kwiat róży.
How many people are named Rose
1 in 55254 women in Poland is named Rose. 408 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1467 among female names.
Rose's popularity over time
9 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #749 among newborns. It is making a comeback after a low in 2008.
Where Rose is most popular
Rose is most popular in Warmian-Masurian, 330% above the national average (6 girls born 2019–2025), followed by Pomeranian (+110%) and Lubusz (+107%). It is least common in Lesser Poland and Subcarpathian, 55% and 15% below average respectively.
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Warmian-Masurian6 girls born+330%
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Pomeranian6 girls born+110%
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Lubusz2 girls born+107%
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Masovian11 girls born+60%
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Lower Silesian4 girls born+31%
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West Pomeranian2 girls born+22%
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Greater Poland5 girls born+20%
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Kuyavian-Pomeranian2 girls born−6%
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Subcarpathian2 girls born−15%
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Lesser Poland2 girls born−55%
Rose as a middle name
Rose is a first name for 408 women in Poland and a middle name for another 1,637, a 20/80 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 208th, between Adelajda (1,646) and Sofia (1,614).
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#206 Marcela1,659
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#207 Adelajda1,646
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#208 Rose1,637
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#209 Sofia1,614
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#210 Gizela1,606