Rosalie
Top 1000
About Rosalie
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.
As of October 2026, Rosalie ranked #171 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #66 in 1938, Nameberry popularity #122.
Editor's take: The name Rosalie is a girl's name of French origin meaning "rose".
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #311 | 1,060 | 593.4 |
| 2015 | #266 | 1,193 | 668.3 |
| 2016 | #252 | 1,252 | 706.5 |
| 2017 | #236 | 1,351 | 782.5 |
| 2018 | #209 | 1,470 | 864.2 |
| 2019 | #209 | 1,467 | 874.1 |
| 2020 | #198 | 1,473 | 911.2 |
| 2021 | #185 | 1,594 | 971.4 |
| 2022 | #176 | 1,690 | 1,030.4 |
| 2023 | #182 | 1,643 | 1,023.9 |
| 2024 | #177 | 1,699 | 1,048.6 |
| 2025 | #171 | 1,797 | 1,118 |
World rankings
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Rosalie on lists
Famous Rosalies
- 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
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"
- Rosalie Aprile
Character on the Sopranos