Name profile

Rosaline

Medieval variant of Rosalind.

PronunciationEnglish /ˈɹoʊ.zə.ˌlin/; American English /ˈɹɑz.ə.ˌlɪn/; American English /ˈɹɑz.ə.ˌlaɪn/; British English /ˈɹɒz.ə.ˌlɪn/; British English /ˈɹɒz.ə.ˌlaɪn/
Usage languagesEnglish
US rank (2025)#2,173

Meaning and history

Medieval variant of Rosalind, this name appears in Shakespeare’s Love’s Labour’s Lost (1594) and Romeo and Juliet (1596).

Popularity over timeUS births · girls
20062006: 14 births, rank #8,237
2007: 7 births, rank #13,924
2008: 11 births, rank #10,084
2009: 19 births, rank #6,811
2010: 23 births, rank #5,771
20112011: 20 births, rank #6,335
2012: 14 births, rank #8,208
2013: 22 births, rank #5,834
2014: 33 births, rank #4,350
2015: 32 births, rank #4,403
20162016: 43 births, rank #3,588
2017: 55 births, rank #2,964
2018: 45 births, rank #3,438
2019: 58 births, rank #2,856
2020: 46 births, rank #3,338
20212021: 56 births, rank #2,958
2022: 70 births, rank #2,530
2023: 68 births, rank #2,588
2024: 55 births, rank #2,976
20252025: 85 births, rank #2,173

Rosaline moved from #882 to #933 for girls between 1931 and 1933. Its highest annual birth count came in 1928, with 88 births.