Rosalind is of debated origin. The Germanic form derives from hros (horse) and lind (tender, soft) — meaning "tender horse." By the medieval period, folk etymology linked it to rosa (rose) and linda (beautiful) — "beautiful rose."
Shakespeare's As You Like It (c.
Rosalind is a compound name. Its parts are lind — each an attested element with a recorded meaning of its own.
Rosalind 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.
In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Rosalind reduce to 2, The Peacemaker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.