Rosalee

What Rosalee means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Rosalee yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #954 vs #4,867 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Rosalee?

US: Rising: up from #1121 in 2015. England & Wales: Falling: down from #1711 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 1938, when 274 girls got the name (#403 that year). First in the US records in 1880.

How common

• About 1 in 5,953 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 63,320 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in WV (0.99 per 1,000 girls), KY (0.81 per 1,000 girls), OK (0.54 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed girls born in each state.

US vs UK

Rosalee is #954 in the US and #4867 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (girls). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Rosalee were girls.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Rosaly25 US
• Roselee16 US
• Rosali14 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

Spelling variants on Wiktionary

• RosaLee

Listed as alternative forms on Wiktionary.

If you like Rosalee

Girls

• Leona#429Feminine form of Leo, meaning “lion”^*
• Mabel#201“lovable”^*
• Nova#46“new”^*
• Aurora#15Italian, from Latin Aurōra, meaning “dawn, sunrise”^*
• Emilia#45Variant of Emily, meaning “rival, emulator”^*
• Aurelia#290“golden”^*

For a brother

• Felix#175“happy, lucky”^*
• Leo#19“lion”^*
• August#81“month of August”^*
• Bennett#40Form of Benedict, meaning “blessed, well spoken of”^*
• Augustus#407“majestic, venerable”^*
• Roman#42Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #102 in 2015, #42 in 2025

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under Latin, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Rosalee’s. Rank is US 2025.