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Rosalba

Recorded 1925–2025 · United States

Rosalba was most popular in 1980, when 101 American babies were given the name — ranking #2,095 that year. In 2025 it ranked #14,309, with 12 births. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 2,837 people named Rosalba.

Most popular in1980
Rank that year#2,095
Births that year101
Total since 18802,837
Given to100% girls
Alive today~2,000
Median age42

Rosalba over time

18802025
Births per year. The dot marks Rosalba’s peak in 1980. Gaps are years the SSA suppressed, which it does for any name given to fewer than five babies.

How old is the name Rosalba?

Rosalba first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1925, which makes it about 100 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 86 of the 101 years since.

How many people are named Rosalba?

The Social Security Administration has recorded 2,837 American births named Rosalba between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 2,677 are estimated to be alive today.

How many babies were named Rosalba in 2025?

12 American babies were named Rosalba in 2025, ranking #14,309 that year.

Is Rosalba getting more or less popular?

Rosalba is too rare for a direction to mean much. It averaged 9 births a year across 2021–2025 against 14 a year a decade earlier — at these counts a single baby moves the percentage, and any year under five births is withheld at source.

Measured on recorded births. American births overall have fallen since 2007, so most established names lose births over any recent decade — a name can shed births and still hold its rank. Compare the rank above, which is measured against the other names of the same year.

Is Rosalba a boy’s or a girl’s name?

Across the whole record Rosalba is a girl’s name — 100.0% of the 2,837 Americans given it were girls and 0.0% were boys. In births since 2016 it is 100% girls and 0% boys.

Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.

How old is someone named Rosalba?

Roughly 2,677 Americans named Rosalba are alive today — 94% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 42 years old, and half are between 30 and 51.

An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.

Where Rosalba is most concentrated

How much more common the name is in each state than across the country as a whole.

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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org