Entry № 8828 · Latin origin

Rosa Rosa — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ RO-sah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Latin
Meaning
"Rose"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (Latin)

A name that means "rose".

Rosa is the Latin word for "rose" — and the original form from which the English Rose derives. It has been used as a girl's name across the Catholic world for centuries.

Today Rosa sits in the U.S. top 500.

Rose — a Latin name.

The name in its native script.

Rosa
Transliteration
Rosa
Pronunciation
/ ˈroʊ.sə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Rosa stands.

Rosa does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Rosas before her.

Real people
Rosa Parks
American civil rights activist.
1913 – 2005
Rosa Luxemburg
Polish-German Marxist theorist.
1871 – 1919
In fiction
Rosa Diaz
Character in Brooklyn Nine-Nine.
Fox/NBC, 2013–2021

Names connected to Rosa.

The number behind Rosa.

8

The Visionary

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Rosa reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.