Entry № 8847 · Germanic origin

Rosamund Rosamund — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ ROZ-uh-mund /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Germanic
Meaning
"Horse protector / rose of the world (Rosamund Pike)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Medieval (Germanic)

A name that means "horse protector / rose of the world (rosamund pike)".

Rosamund is from the Germanic hros (horse) + mund (protection) — "horse protector"; later folk-etymologized as Latin rosa mundi (rose of the world). Fair Rosamund (Rosamund Clifford, c. Princess Rosamund — English heritage naming.

Horse protector / rose of the world.

The name in its native script.

Rosamund
Transliteration
Rosamund
Pronunciation
/ ˈrɒz.ə.mənd /
Root
Grammatical form

What Rosamund is built from.

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

mund
Germanic
“protection”

Where Rosamund stands.

Rosamund 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.

Rosamunds before her.

Real people
Rosamund Pike
British Oscar-nominee + Golden Globe actress.
born 1979
Rosamunde Pilcher
British romance novelist (60M+ copies).
1924 – 2019
Rosamund Lehmann
British 20th-c. novelist.
1901 – 1990
In fiction
Fair Rosamund
Henry II's iconic English royal mistress.

Names connected to Rosamund.

The number behind Rosamund.

6

The Nurturer

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Rosamund reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.