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 reduces to five — the number of Dick Van Dyke.