Entry № 8834 · Latin origin

Rosalee Rosalee — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ ROHZ-uh-lee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Latin
Meaning
"Rose + meadow (Rosalie Cullen in Twilight)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Modern (English)

A name that means "rose + meadow (rosalie cullen in twilight)".

Rosalee is the modern American spelling of Rosalie — from the Latin rosa (rose) combined with the -lee (Old English lēah, meadow) suffix. A top-500 US baby name since 2014. Saint Rosalia of Palermo — 12th-century Sicilian hermit and patron saint of Palermo; her July 15 feast day is one of the largest religious festivals in Sicily. Rosalie Anderson MacDowell — Andie MacDowell's birth name.

Rose + meadow.

The name in its native script.

Rosalee
Transliteration
Rosalee
Pronunciation
/ ˈroʊz.ə.li /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Rosalee stands.

Rosalee 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.

Rosalees before her.

Real people
Saint Rosalia of Palermo
Patron saint of Palermo.
1130 – 1166
Rosalie de Constant
Swiss writer.
1758 – 1834
In fiction
Rosalie Cullen
Meyer's Twilight.
2005
Rosalee Calvert
NBC's Grimm.
2011

Names connected to Rosalee.

The number behind Rosalee.

3

The Communicator

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Rosalee reduce to 3, The Communicator. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.