Róża
More girls were named Róża last year than in any year before it, a Slavic name climbing back into steady use. It simply means "rose".
Róża Pronunciation
Róża is pronounced ROO-zhah (/ˈruʐa/).
What Róża means
Where Róża comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Róża is a flower before it is a name. In Slavic speech the word named the rose in the garden, and Polish kept the bloom and the woman under one word, so that to hear the name is to hear the plant. The short meaning stays plain: rose, or in Polish kwiat róży.
From that root the longer forms branch off. Rozalia, with its older spelling Rozaliia, stretches the two syllables into something more formal, the name a teacher reads down a class register on the first day of September while Róża stays the everyday face of it.
That September timing is no accident. The imieniny of Rozalia and Róża fall on the fourth, the feast of Saint Rozalia of Palermo, a hermit whom Pope Urban VIII entered into the Roman calendar in the seventeenth century. A rose is easy to picture. The name hands you the flower and little else: kwiat róży.
How many people are named Róża
1 in 838 women in Poland is named Róża. 26,917 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #251 among female names.
Róża's popularity over time
1,196 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #59 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2002.
Where Róża is most popular
Róża is most popular in Masovian, 33% above the national average (1,630 girls born 2019–2025), followed by Warmian-Masurian (+18%) and Podlaskie (+13%). It is least common in Opole and Świętokrzyskie, 33% and 29% below average respectively.
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Masovian1,630 girls born+33%
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Warmian-Masurian292 girls born+18%
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Podlaskie256 girls born+13%
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Subcarpathian435 girls born+5%
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Lower Silesian562 girls born+4%
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Pomeranian525 girls born+3%
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Lublin344 girls born−3%
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Lesser Poland747 girls born−5%
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West Pomeranian272 girls born−7%
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Silesian727 girls born−7%
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Lubusz158 girls born−8%
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Łódź393 girls born−10%
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Kuyavian-Pomeranian330 girls born−13%
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Greater Poland538 girls born−28%
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Świętokrzyskie136 girls born−29%
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Opole107 girls born−33%
Róża as a middle name
Róża is a first name for 26,917 women in Poland and a middle name for another 21,911, a 55/45 split — almost evenly. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 84th, between Michalina (22,836) and Czesława (21,589).
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82
23,065Regina
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83
22,836Michalina
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8421,911Róża
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85
21,589Czesława
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86
21,245Wioletta