Rosella

Where Rosella comes from

Rosella 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. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #317 among girls — 25 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1917
    Peak, #307
    398 babies named Rosella — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1941
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #521.
  4. 1971
    Rosella Sensi born
    Italian businesswoman
  5. 1996
    Rosella Ayane born
    Moroccan association football player
In the dictionary

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

Namesakes
  • Rosella Ayane · Moroccan association football player, born 1996
  • Rosella Sensi · Italian businesswoman, born 1971
  • Rosella Hightower · ballerina and ballet teacher, 1920–2008
  • Rosella Postorino · Italian writer, born 1978
  • Rosella Towne · American actress, 1918–2014

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.