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Girl

Rosemary

Rosemary is a girl's name meaning "Dew of the sea", drawing on Latin roots. It peaked back in the 1940s and has been gradually easing since. In the current registry, it is a name most people have come across. Few names stick around this long: it shows up across almost the entire twelve-decade span this registry covers.

LatinDew of the sea
LatinBlend of Rose and Mary
Births by decade
1900s
634
1910s
7,079
1920s
26,021
1930s
24,938
1940s
34,380
1950s
25,047
1960s
14,643
1970s
5,836
1980s
5,008
1990s
4,052
2000s
3,945
2010s
4,427
Peaked in the 1940s · 156,010 total U.S. births since 1900