Rosalinda

Where Rosalinda comes from

Rosalinda hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1914
    First appearance
    #2,638 among girls, 8 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1949
    Peak, #464
    300 babies named Rosalinda — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1968
    Rosalinda Celentano born
    Italian actress
  4. 1969
    Rosalinda Serfaty born
    Argentina-Venezuelan actress
  5. 1992
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,322.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Rosalinda Celentano · Italian actress, born 1968
  • Rosalinda Serfaty · Argentina-Venezuelan actress, born 1969
  • Rosalinda Cannavò · Italian actress, singer and model, born 1992
  • Rosalinda L. Orosa · Filipino writer, 1928–2023
  • Rosalinda Bueso · diplomat of Honduras, born 1977

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.