Rozalinda
Just 15 Polish women carry it, and records show no newborn given it since 2000: most Poles have never met one. Latin at root, first read as "gentle horse" and later as a rose name.
Rozalinda Pronunciation
Rozalinda is pronounced ro-zah-LEEN-dah (/rɔzaˈlinda/).
What Rozalinda means
Where Rozalinda comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Rozalinda carries a Latin frame around an older core. To Polish ears the name opens with "rosa," the rose, and closes on "linda," beautiful, so it reads plainly as piękna róża. That reading is real, and it is also partly a later fit. Behind it sits an earlier sense, "gentle horse," where the first part named the animal and the second meant soft or tender. The rose meaning settled on top once "rosa" began to sound like the obvious start.
The flower won.
Once the rose took hold, Rozalinda stopped explaining itself. A girl signing the name on a form at the urząd meets "piękna róża," not the horse under it. The animal sense survives for someone who digs into the roots. The record still keeps both: piękna róża first, and beneath it, łagodny koń.
When Rozalinda celebrates name day
Rozalinda appears 1 time in the Polish name day calendar, 1 of them as a main name, the first on 17 January.
The days Polish calendars list this name on. By custom you celebrate one of them, usually the first after your birthday.
How many people are named Rozalinda
1 in 1502922 women in Poland is named Rozalinda. 15 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #12268 among female names.
Rozalinda as a middle name
Rozalinda is a first name for 15 women in Poland and a middle name for another 5, a 75/25 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 3831st, between Rozalina (5) and Rozyta (5).
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#3829 Roxsana5
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#3830 Rozalina5
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#3831 Rozalinda5
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#3832 Rozyta5
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#3833 Runyararo5