Rosetta

Where Rosetta comes from

Borrowed from Italian Rosetta. By surface analysis, Rose + -etta. Piecewise doublet of Rosette.
— Wiktionary's entry for Rosetta
  • Italian
  • 3 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #227 among girls — 46 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1881
    Peak, #219
    49 babies named Rosetta — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1919
    Rosetta Cattaneo born
    Italian sprinter
  4. 1931
    Rosetta Loy born
    Italian writer
  5. 2002
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #4,906.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Italian.
Namesakes
  • Rosetta Loy · Italian writer, 1931–2022
  • Rosetta Cattaneo · Italian sprinter, 1919–1988
  • Rosetta LeNoire · American actress, 1911–2002
  • Rosetta Tofano · Italian actress, 1902–1960
  • Rosetta Calavetta · Italian actress and voice actress, 1914–1993

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.