MEANING & HISTORY
What does Rosalino mean?
Rosalino is the masculine counterpart of Rosalina. Porto Editora’s name dictionary explicitly places Rosalina under Rosália and identifies Rosalino as its masculine form.
This establishes a rose-name route rather than a guess from the first four letters. The precise chain does not justify unrelated phrases involving blond hair, linen, or beautiful horse drawn from other similar names.
References for this explanation
Pronunciation & syllables
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Spanish
- /rosaˈlino/
- [ro.saˈli.no]
Ro · sa · li · no4 source divisions
Dictionary reading & contributors ↗Wiktionary contributors / Kaikki / Wiktextract · CC BY-SA 4.0
Origin and name formation
Language-specific accounts from the dictionary. A shared spelling can have more than one history.
SpanishEtymology & source
a male given name of dated usage, feminine equivalent Rosalina
Wiktionary: Rosalino (Spanish) ↗ · Contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0
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Use in Philippine-linked records
Public-record transcription
3
eligible source records · 2001
This spelling is reported in an openly licensed transcription of elected-candidate records. This is a record count, not a birth count or national popularity measure.
OpenHalalan / COMELEC ↗PSA · OFFICIAL BIRTH RECORDS
Rosalino in the birth records
Exact spelling and stated year in the published name tables. Read the counts as individual snapshots.
Tables included: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020, 2022, 2023 and 2024. The 2016 fact sheet lists five names per sex; the later tables include ten. Missing counts are not inferred. Sex categories follow the official tables, independently of dictionary gender labels. Explore the official tables →
Similar names to Rosalino
Names with a similar opening or ending, ordered by spelling distance. Similar spelling does not imply the same meaning or origin.
Names in this collection
- Rosalina♀Latinate Rosaline, from the Rosalind name family
- Rizalino♂Commemorative formation from Rizal
- Rosalia·Rose-derived Latin name
- Rosalie·French form of Rosalia; rose-name family
- Rosalinda♀Latinate Rosalind, with an older Germanic compound
- Rosario♀Rosary
- Catalino♂Masculine counterpart of Catalina
- Rogelio♂Fame and spear
What rhymes with Rosalino?
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Explore Rosalino further
Follow the sources
- OpenHalalan — pinned 2001 COMELEC transcription (opens in a new tab)
Source-reported given-name form in a row with a separate explicit middle initial; ODbL-1.0.
- COMELEC — 2001 List of Elected Candidates (opens in a new tab)
Original document identified by the transcription; selected PDF entries were spot-checked, not every imported row.
- Wiktionary contributors — Rosalino (Spanish) (opens in a new tab)
Language-specific given-name etymology; shared spelling does not prove every bearer has this origin.
- Wiktionary: Rosalino (opens in a new tab)
Personal-name formation and etymological relationships; imported dictionary account consulted.
- Porto Editora: Rosalina (Antroponímia) (opens in a new tab)
Exact editorial name dictionary says Rosalina derives from Rosália and identifies masculine Rosalino.
- Wiktionary: Rosalina (opens in a new tab)
Explicit lexical or parent-name step in the described formation.