Rozaliia
The doubled vowel marks this as the Russian and Ukrainian spelling of Rozalia, a Latin name for the rose: różana, of roses. Only about 250 women in Poland carry it, so most Poles have never met one.
Rozaliia Pronunciation
Rozaliia is pronounced ro-ZAHLY-yah (/rɔˈzaljja/).
What Rozaliia means
Where Rozaliia comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Rozaliia grows from Latin. The root is rosa, the rose, and the name comes into Polish through the older variant Rozalia. Its meaning holds close to that root: rose, or of roses, różana in Polish. The flower and the name have never really parted.
The doubled vowel in Rozaliia points east. It marks the name as it sounds among Russian and Ukrainian speakers, who took in the Latin flower long ago and kept it. In plain Polish the same name folds down to Róża, one short word for rose, worn as an everyday diminutive.
There was a real Rosalia, a hermit of twelfth-century Palermo, later made patron of that city, her relics carried through its streets against the plague. Her feast fixes a name-day on the calendar. Read a Polish class register and a Rozalia may sit a few rows from a Róża, both of them flowering out of the same Latin rosa.
How many people are named Rozaliia
1 in 91271 women in Poland is named Rozaliia. 247 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1962 among female names.
Rozaliia's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 girls were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.