Girl
Rosetta
Rosetta means "Italian diminutive of Rose" and comes from Italian, giving it real etymological depth as a girl's name. It has not kept pace since its 1940s peak. In the current registry, it is a name plenty of people share. It has quietly persisted through most of the last century of American birth records.
ItalianItalian diminutive of Rose
EtymologyMeaning "rose"
Births by decade
1900s
1,143
1910s
2,892
1920s
4,361
1930s
4,497
1940s
4,800
1950s
3,818
1960s
2,215
1970s
1,098
1980s
700
1990s
443
2000s
308
2010s
329
Peaked in the 1940s · 26,604 total U.S. births since 1900