Meaning and history
Rosalind combines Old German hros, "horse," and lind, "soft," "flexible" or "tender." Though introduced to England by the Normans, it remained uncommon, and its spelling was later influenced by Latin rosa linda, "beautiful rose." Edmund Spenser used it in poetry, and Shakespeare popularized it through the heroine of As You Like It (1599).
20062006: 40 births, rank #3,795
2007: 49 births, rank #3,376
2008: 34 births, rank #4,448
2009: 36 births, rank #4,196
2010: 49 births, rank #3,306
20112011: 62 births, rank #2,796
2012: 74 births, rank #2,474
2013: 91 births, rank #2,096
2014: 101 births, rank #1,967
2015: 146 births, rank #1,532
20162016: 162 births, rank #1,425
2017: 198 births, rank #1,210
2018: 184 births, rank #1,255
2019: 185 births, rank #1,255
2020: 153 births, rank #1,422
20212021: 172 births, rank #1,312
2022: 157 births, rank #1,431
2023: 155 births, rank #1,439
2024: 149 births, rank #1,466
20252025: 140 births, rank #1,518
Rosalind moved from #841 to #917 for girls between 1977 and 1978. Its highest annual birth count came in 1965, with 652 births.