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How popular is the name Rose?
Births per year, rank history and how many Roses are alive today.
Rose (female) is currently the 59th most popular girls' name in England and Wales, with 742 babies given the name in 2024. The name peaked in 1904, when around 2,900 babies were given the name, the 29th most popular that year. Rose's popularity is double-peaked: strongest in the early 1900s, having dropped out of the published rankings in between, with a second wave in the early 2020s. Numbers have been stable in recent years. At least 25,000 babies have been named Rose in England and Wales since 1904. Figures before 1996 are estimates. Common short forms of Rose include Rosie and Rosa.
The Rose you are most likely to meet is around 11 years old. Half of all Roses born in England and Wales are between 13 and 67, and there are at least 39,000 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 females, there's roughly a 12% chance that at least one of them will be called Rose.
How many babies are named Rose each year?
Where does Rose rank among girls' names?
Where this data comes from
Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.
One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.
Common questions
When was the name Rose most popular?
Rose peaked in 1904, when around 2,900 babies in England and Wales were given the name.
How many people are called Rose?
At least 39,000 people named Rose born in England and Wales are alive today.
How old is the typical Rose?
Most living Roses are between 13 and 67; the most common age is about 11.
Is Rose becoming more or less popular?
Recovering: it has climbed back after a dip in the rankings.