Rosanna
Barely 130 Polish women carry it, few enough that most people here will never meet one. The name is Latin, joining a rose and the name Anna into "rose and grace".
Rosanna Pronunciation
Rosanna is pronounced ro-SAHN-nah (/rɔˈsanna/).
What Rosanna means
Where Rosanna comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Rosanna grew in Italy from two older names pressed together. The first half is Rosa, from Latin rosa, the rose. The second is Anna, which reaches back through Greek to the Hebrew Hannah and its sense of grace. Read the parts and the short meaning falls out: rose plus grace.
Italians have long favoured such joined names, and Rosanna sits easily among them. Spelling shifts as the name travels. In Polish records you meet rozanna, and the trimmer rosana turns up too. Anna also links Rosanna to Hannah and Anne elsewhere in Europe.
The name reached a wide audience in 1982, when the band Toto released a song called Rosanna. Polish readers, though, hear róża Anny inside it, the rose of Anna. That reading keeps the flower next to the meaning, rose plus grace.
How many people are named Rosanna
1 in 170787 women in Poland is named Rosanna. 132 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2895 among female names.
Rosanna's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 girls were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.
Rosanna as a middle name
Rosanna is a first name for 132 women in Poland and a middle name for another 46, a 74/26 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 1019th, between Micaela (46) and Zefiryna (46).
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#1017 Malika46
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#1018 Micaela46
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#1019 Rosanna46
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#1020 Zefiryna46
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#1021 Zeynep46