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Rosalind

Rooted in Germanic, Rosalind is a girl's name that means "Germanic hros (horse) + lind (gentle/serpent)". It peaked back in the 1960s and has been gradually easing since. In the current registry, it is a name plenty of people share. Its single strongest year on record was 1959.

GermanicGermanic "hros" (horse) + "lind" (gentle/serpent)
EtymologyReinterpreted via "rosa linda" – "pretty rose"
Births by decade
1900s
314
1910s
1,403
1920s
2,093
1930s
1,855
1940s
4,409
1950s
5,331
1960s
5,349
1970s
2,168
1980s
921
1990s
536
2000s
404
2010s
882
Peaked in the 1960s · 25,665 total U.S. births since 1900