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.
When Róża celebrates name day
Róża appears 6 times in the Polish name day calendar, 3 of them as a main name, the first on 6 March.
The days Polish calendars list this name on. By custom you celebrate one of them, usually the first after your birthday.
Rarer dates. Only the most complete calendars add this name on these days. Most skip them, so hardly anyone celebrates then.
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 parents choose Róża
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 Holy Cross, 33% and 29% below average respectively.
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Masovian
+33%1 in 217 babies
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Warmian-Masurian
+18%1 in 246 babies
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Podlaskie
+13%1 in 257 babies
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Opole
−33%1 in 431 babies
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Holy Cross
−29%1 in 408 babies
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Greater Poland
−28%1 in 400 babies
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Masovian+33% 1,630 born1 in 217 babies+33%
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Warmian-Masurian+18% 292 born1 in 246 babies+18%
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Podlaskie+13% 256 born1 in 257 babies+13%
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Subcarpathian+5% 435 born1 in 277 babies+5%
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Lower Silesian+4% 562 born1 in 280 babies+4%
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Pomeranian+3% 525 born1 in 281 babies+3%
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Lublin−3% 344 born1 in 298 babies−3%
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Lesser Poland−5% 747 born1 in 304 babies−5%
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West Pomeranian−7% 272 born1 in 310 babies−7%
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Silesian−7% 727 born1 in 313 babies−7%
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Lubusz−8% 158 born1 in 314 babies−8%
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Łódź−10% 393 born1 in 322 babies−10%
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Kuyavian-Pomeranian−13% 330 born1 in 331 babies−13%
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Greater Poland−28% 538 born1 in 400 babies−28%
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Holy Cross−29% 136 born1 in 408 babies−29%
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Opole−33% 107 born1 in 431 babies−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 Regina23,065
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#83 Michalina22,836
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#84 Róża21,911
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#85 Czesława21,589
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#86 Wioletta21,245