Rosina

Where Rosina comes from

An Italian pet form of Rosa borrowed in the nineteenth century, particularly from the character in Rossini's opera The Barber of Seville (1816).
— Wiktionary's entry for Rosina
  • Italian
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1842
    Rosina Heikel born
    Finnish doctor
  2. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #518 among girls — 11 babies in the first year on record.
  3. 1890
    Peak, #435
    34 babies named Rosina — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1912
    Rosina Lawrence born
    American actress
  5. 1987
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #4,660.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Italian.
Namesakes
  • Rosina Lawrence · American actress, 1912–1997
  • Rosina Heikel · Finnish doctor, 1842–1929
  • Rosina Anselmi · Italian actress, 1880–1965
  • Rosina Lhévinne · Russian-American pianist and pedagogue, 1880–1976
  • Rosina Bulwer Lytton · British writer, 1802–1882

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.