Rosalia

Where Rosalia comes from

Learned borrowing from Latin Rosālia. Doublet of Rosalie.
— Wiktionary's entry for Rosalia
  • Latin
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1876
    Rosalia Zemlyachka born
    Russian revolutionary
  2. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #580 among girls — 9 babies in the first year on record.
  3. 1881
    Peak, #539
    10 babies named Rosalia — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1885
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,047.
  5. 1918
    Rosalia Lombardo born
    Italian child who died of pneumonia
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Latin.
Namesakes
  • Rosalia Lombardo · Italian child who died of pneumonia, 1918–1920
  • Rosalia Zemlyachka · Russian revolutionary, 1876–1947
  • Rosalia Nghidinwa · Namibian politician, 1952–2018
  • Rosalia Porcaro · Italian actress, born 1966
  • Rosalia Maggio · Italian actress, dancer, singer and showgirl, 1921–1995

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.