Entry № 8839 · Germanic origin

Rosalind Rosalind — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ ROZ-ah-lind /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Germanic
Meaning
"Tender horse, beautiful rose"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Medieval (Germanic)

A name that means "tender horse, beautiful rose".

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.

Beautiful rose. Shakespeare's Forest of Arden heroine.

The name in its native script.

Rosalind
Transliteration
Rosalind
Pronunciation
/ ˈrɒz.ə.lɪnd /
Root
Grammatical form

What Rosalind is built from.

Rosalind is a compound name. Its parts are lind — each an attested element with a recorded meaning of its own.

lind
Germanic
“gentle; linden shield”

Where Rosalind stands.

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.

Rosalinds before her.

Real people
Rosalind Franklin
British scientist who imaged DNA's double helix.
1920 – 1958
Rosalind Russell
American actress.
1907 – 1976
In fiction
Rosalind
Heroine of Shakespeare's As You Like It.
c. 1599 play

Names connected to Rosalind.

The number behind Rosalind.

2

The Peacemaker

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.