Rosemarie

Where Rosemarie comes from

The dictionaries list Rosemarie as a given name — a female given name from Latin, a variant of Rosemary borrowed from continental Europe — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Latin
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1896
    First appearance
    #1,583 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1936
    Peak, #158
    1,300 babies named Rosemarie — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1952
    Rosemarie Ackermann born
    German former high jumper
  4. 1953
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #339.
  5. 1971
    Rosemarie DeWitt born
    American actress
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Latin, a variant of Rosemary borrowed from continental Europe.
Namesakes
  • Rosemarie DeWitt · American actress, born 1971
  • Rosemarie Ackermann · German former high jumper, born 1952
  • Rosemarie Trockel · German artist, born 1952
  • Rosemarie Whyte · Jamaican athletics competitor, born 1986
  • Rosemarie Frankland · Beauty pageant contestant, actress, 1943–2000

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.