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Rosa

Latin at root and a cousin of Polish "róża," it carries the plain sense of the flower: a rose. Most Poles have never met one, but it's slowly finding takers, with more girls given it last year than in most years past.

Rosa Pronunciation

Rosa is pronounced RO-sah (/ˈrɔsa/).

Related names
Róża
Alive in 2025
352
Newborns 2025
10
National rank
#1601

What Rosa means

Where Rosa comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.

Rosa is Latin, the plain word for the rose. The name says the flower and nothing more. Spain and Italy took to it early, and the sound settled easily into both languages.

In Sicily the name belongs to Santa Rosalia, patron of Palermo, whose feast fills the city from the tenth to the fifteenth of July. A float shaped like a ship rolls down the Cassaro toward the sea, decked with roses and gilding. Across the Spanish world the name belongs instead to Rosa of Lima, born in Peru in 1586 and canonised in 1671 as the first saint of the Americas.

Polish keeps the name close as Róża, its variant, and marks it on the 23rd of August, the day of that same Rosa of Lima. Read down a school register and a Róża will surprise no one. The root stays plain each time: Latin rosa, the rose.

How many people are named Rosa

1 in 64045 women in Poland is named Rosa. 352 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1601 among female names.

People with the name Rosa 2019 → 2025
352 +137 since 2019
2020 221 +6
2021 238 +17
2022 256 +18
2023 274 +18
2024 308 +34
2025 352 +44

Rosa's popularity over time

10 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #712 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2012.

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10 newborns with the name Rosa in 2025
national rank #712 that year

Where parents choose Rosa

Rosa is most popular in Lesser Poland, 98% above the national average (5 girls born 2019–2025), followed by Greater Poland (+67%) and Silesian (+58%).

Chosen most
  • Lesser Poland
    +98%
    1 in 45,383 babies
  • Greater Poland
    +67%
    1 in 53,811 babies
  • Silesian
    +58%
    1 in 56,896 babies

Rosa as a middle name

Rosa is a first name for 352 women in Poland and a middle name for another 355, a 50/50 split, almost evenly. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 363rd, between Abigail (356) and Bogdana (354).

As a first name
352
As a middle name
355
first name 50% middle name 50%
Middle-name ranking women

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