Rose
Pronounced /ɹoʊz/
Pronounced /ɹoʊz/
Babies named Rose per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
Greatest: 169,311 babies, 8.27 per 1,000. Silent: 104,936 babies, 5.08 per 1,000. Boomers: 108,835 babies, 3.04 per 1,000. Gen X: 23,996 babies, 0.94 per 1,000. Millennials: 14,370 babies, 0.51 per 1,000. Gen Z: 15,700 babies, 0.54 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 25,968 babies, 1.28 per 1,000.
As an English, Scottish, French, Walloon, Danish, Jewish (Yiddish רויז (royz)), and German surname, all from the noun rose. Also adapted from foreign forms of the same meaning such as Hungarian Rózsa, Rozsa, Slovak Róža, Czech Roza, etc. Compare Larose. The surname may be matronymic, but more probably topographic from residence by rose bushes or the sign of a rose, or a nickname from rosy complexion. Also as an English surname, from a Norman name of Germanic origins, likely made up of Proto-Germanic *hrod (“fame”) and *heid (“kind, sort, type”), ultimately evolved from *hrōþiz.
From Wiktionary’s entry for Rose, CC BY-SA 4.0.