Rosanna

Where Rosanna comes from

Blend of Rose + Anna, possibly also inspired by Roxana.
— Wiktionary's entry for Rosanna
  • Latin
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #679 among girls — 7 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1959
    Rosanna Arquette born
    American actress
  3. 1983
    Peak, #434
    488 babies named Rosanna — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1984
    Rosanna Davison born
    Irish model, activist, and Miss World 2003
  5. 1989
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #950.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Latin.
Namesakes
  • Rosanna Arquette · American actress, born 1959
  • Rosanna Davison · Irish model, activist, and Miss World 2003, born 1984
  • Rosanna Schiaffino · Italian actress, 1938–2009
  • Rosanna DeSoto · American actress, born 1950
  • Rosanna Marani · Italian TV host, born 1946

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.