Entry № 8854 · English origin

Rose Rose — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ ROZE /
Gender
Girl
Origin
English
Meaning
"The flower; or fame"
Syllables
1
First recorded
11th c.

A name that means "the flower; or fame".

Rose has two origins braided together. The first is the obvious one — the English word for the flower, which in turn comes from the Latin rosa. The second is older and slightly hidden: Rose may also derive from the Germanic name Hrodohaidis, meaning "famous kind" or "famous type," which entered English through the Normans.

Rose was hugely popular in the late nineteenth century, declined through most of the twentieth, and has returned in the past decade as parents reach back for short classical names.

The flower; or fame — a English name.

The name in its native script.

Rose
Transliteration
Rose
Pronunciation
/ roʊz /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Rose stands.

Rose 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.

Roses before her.

Real people
Rose Kennedy
Matriarch of the Kennedy political family.
1890 – 1995
Rose Byrne
Australian actress, known for Bridesmaids and X-Men: First Class.
born 1979
In fiction
Rose DeWitt Bukater
Heroine of James Cameron's Titanic.
1997 film
Rose Tyler
Companion to the Ninth and Tenth Doctors in Doctor Who.
BBC, 2005–

Names connected to Rose.

The number behind Rose.

3

The Communicator

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