Rosalie

French variation of Rosalia, Latin

"rose"

Rosalie Origin and Meaning

The name Rosalie is a girl's name of French origin meaning "rose".

Rosalie hit its apex in 1938 and then slid straight downhill until it fell off the U.S. Top 1000 completely in the 1980s, only to spring back to life in 2009 as the name of a character in the Twilight series. The beautiful vampire Rosalie Hale has breathed fresh life back into this mid-century name, and the fact that the character is both sympathetic and relatively minor means Rosalie has the chance to thrive again as a baby name without feeling unduly tied to Twilight.

For a long time Rosalie's main claim to fame was via the eponymous 1928 Broadway musical, which became a movie ten years later, both of which included a hit song.

Rosalie was used as a character name in literature by Anne Bronte and Oscar Wilde. In the mid-twentieth century, Rosalie was the name of the daughter on The Goldbergs. More recently, Rosalie is a character on Grimm.

Rosalie Rank in US Top 1000

# 177 in the US

Rosalie Rank in Nameberry Top 1000

# 167 on Nameberry

Popularity of the name Rosalie

• 177 US 2024
• 167 Nameberry 2025
• 63 Canada 2024
• 122 Future 2028
• 270 England 2024
• 73 Germany 2024
• 102 Netherlands 2021
• 60 Belgium 2024
• 56 Austria 2024

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Famous People Named Rosalie

• Rosalie Duthé (1748 1830), French courtesan; called "the first officially recorded dumb blonde"
• Rosalie Anderson "Andie" MacDowell American actress
• Rosalie Crutchley English actress
• Rosalie Allen (born Julie Marlene Bedra) American country music singer
• Rosalie Silberman Abella Canadian Supreme Court justice
• Rosalie Sorrels American singer,songwriter
• Rosalie Anne Birch English cricketer
• Rosalie Rendu Daughter of Charity and beatified by the Catholic Church
• Rosalie Selfridge daughter of American/English entrepreneur Harry Selfridge

The name Rosalie in Pop Culture

• Rosalie Lillian Hale main character in the Twilight series
• Rosalie Murray character in Agnes Grey (1847) by Anne Bronte
• Rosalie "Ro" Rowan character in DC Universe
• Rosalie Princess of Romanza, main character in musical/film "Rosalie"
• Rosalie Kelly main character in movie "The Money Trap"
• "Rosalie " song by Thin Lizzy
• Rosalie Otterbourne character in Agatha Christie's novel "Death On The Nile"