Rosemarie is a compound of Rose (Latin rosa) and Marie — also evoking the herb rosemary (from the Latin ros marinus, "dew of the sea"). A top-200 US baby name from 1925 to 1955. Rose Marie (born Rose Marie Mazzetta, 1923-2017) — *American actress and comedian; played comedy writer Sally Rogers on CBS's The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961-1966) — one of the first depictions of a professional woman in a male-dominated workplace on American TV; her career spanned nine decades, beginning as a child star ("Baby Rose Marie") in 1929; the documentary Wait for Your Laugh (2017) chronicled her life. Rosemarie DeWitt (born 1971) — American actress; Mad Men (2007-2008), Rachel Getting Married (2008), La La Land* (2016); great-granddaughter of boxing champion James J. Braddock (the "Cinderella Man"). "Rose-Marie" (1924) — Rudolf Friml operetta; one of the most-successful Broadway musicals of the 1920s; the 1936 film version starred Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy. Rosemary's Baby (1968) — Roman Polanski's horror classic (though that character is "Rosemary"). Rosemarie Aquilina — Michigan judge who presided over the Larry Nassar sentencing (2018).
Featured throughout 20th-century American entertainment.
Rosemarie 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 Rosemarie reduce to 4, The Builder. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.