Rosalie
From Latin, meaning "rose". Most Poles have never met one: only around 140 carry it, though a small run of newborn girls each year is starting to shift that.
Rosalie Pronunciation
Rosalie is pronounced ro-SAHL-ye (/rɔˈsaljɛ/).
What Rosalie means
Where Rosalie comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Rosalie grows from the Latin word rosa, the rose. The name traveled through France, then into England and Germany, and every spelling kept that single flower at the root. In Polish it hardens into Rozalia.
French speakers made it their own, and Rosalie stayed common there while England used it more sparingly.
Saint Rosalia of Palermo, a hermit who died in the twelfth century, gave the name a documented past. Sicilians still climb to her shrine on Monte Pellegrino each September. Her story tied the rose to a woman's name long before Rozalia turned up on a Polish school register, read out between Roksana and Róża.
The meaning stays plain. Behind Rosalie, and behind Rozalia, sits róża, the flower, różana in the older adjective, of the rose.
How many people are named Rosalie
1 in 156554 women in Poland is named Rosalie. 144 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2720 among female names.
Rosalie's popularity over time
7 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #834 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2021.
Where Rosalie is most popular
Rosalie is most popular in Pomeranian, 633% above the national average (2 girls born 2019–2025), followed by Silesian (+375%).
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Pomeranian2 girls born+633%
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Silesian2 girls born+375%
Rosalie as a middle name
Rosalie is a first name for 144 women in Poland and a middle name for another 54, a 73/27 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 931st, between Mathilde (54) and Syntia (54).
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#929 Justine54
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#930 Mathilde54
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#931 Rosalie54
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#932 Syntia54
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#933 Szczęsna54