MEANING & HISTORY
What does Rose mean?
Rose has a genuine flower-name interpretation: the English flower word goes back through European forms to Latin rosa. There is also an older personal-name history in which Norman Roese or Rohese continued a Germanic compound associated with fame and kind or type.
The two histories became connected as the name was associated with the familiar flower, especially in later revivals. A modern Rose may therefore have been chosen directly for the flower without inheriting the full older compound. Keeping both accounts is more accurate than forcing every bearer into a single ancient origin.
Pronunciation & syllables
Dictionary readings are kept by language. Select the reading that matches your intended pronunciation. Dots show the source’s written divisions; they are not a universal syllable count across languages.
Tagalog
- /ˈɾows/Standard-Tagalog
- [ˈɾoʊ̯s]Standard-Tagalog
Rose1 source divisions
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Origin and name formation
Language-specific accounts from the dictionary. A shared spelling can have more than one history.
TagalogEtymology & source
Borrowed from English Rose.
a female given name from English
CebuanoEtymology & source
From English Rose.
a female given name from English
EnglishEtymology & source
As an English, Scottish, French, Walloon, Danish, Jewish (Yiddish רויז (royz)), and German surname, all from the noun rose. Also adapted from foreign forms of the same meaning such as Hungarian Rózsa, Rozsa, Slovak Róža, Czech Roza, etc. Compare Larose. The surname may be matronymic, but more probably topographic from residence by rose bushes or the sign of a rose, or a nickname from rosy complexion. Also as an English surname, from a Norman name of Germanic origins, likely made up of Proto-Germanic *hrod (“fame”) and *heid (“kind, sort, type”), ultimately evolved from *hrōþiz. Introduced to England in the form Roese or Rohese. As an English and Scottish surname, variant of Ross. As a Slovene surname, Americanized or Italianized from Rože, from a short form of Erazem (from Latin Erasmus), compare Rozman.
A female given name from Germanic.
EnglishEtymology & source
As a Scottish surname, from several places such as Roose in Cumbria or Roos in Yorkshire, both from Scottish Gaelic ros (“promontory”) or a Brythonic parallel of its source such as Welsh rhos (“moor, heath”). There were also several Norman families in Scotland who took their name from Rots in Calvados. Compare Rose, Rhodes. As an English surname, from Wrose in Shipley, with loss of initial w. As an English and German surname, from derivatives of the old Germanic root common in names *hrōþi (“fame”). Compare Rossell. As a Cornish surname, from several places in Cornwall deriving from ros (“heathland”), related to the above Celtic word meaning "heath" or "promontory." See Rouse. As a Jewish and German occupational surname for a breeder of horses, from the regional/poetic noun Ross (“horse”). Doublet of horse. Also as a Jewish surname, Americanized from Rose.
A male given name transferred from the surname, of early 19th century and later usage.
Adapted from Wiktionary contributors via Kaikki/Wiktextract. Source accounts remain in their original English; editorial summaries and filters are adapted. Attribution and downloads
People with the name Rose
Public figures and other documented namesakes linked by an explicit given-name claim. This is a selection of records, not a popularity ranking.
DOCUMENTED NAMESAKE
Rose Fostanes
Filipino musician
DOCUMENTED NAMESAKE
Rose Ann Gonzales
Filipino actress
The record establishes the name association, not the person’s intended meaning, pronunciation or ancestry. Descriptions are attributed to Wikidata contributors (CC0).
Use in Philippine-linked records
Public-record transcription
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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 ↗Wikidata
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distinct person records with an explicit given-name claim
Community-edited coverage, not a census or birth registry. Examples: Rose Ann Gonzales, Rose Fostanes
PSA · OFFICIAL BIRTH RECORDS
Rose 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 Rose
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
- Jose♂Related to Joseph: adding or increasing
- José♂God will add
- Ros♂♀Short form of Rosalind, Rosamund, and other Ros-names
- Rosa♀Rose; the Latin flower-name tradition
- Rosie♀Affectionate form of Rose and related names
- Ross♂Promontory or headland
- Rob♂Short form of Robert; bright fame
- Rody♂Familiar form of Rodelio, Rodolfo or Rodrigo
What rhymes with Rose?
No dictionary-confirmed rhyme match is available for this spelling in the current catalogue.
Names with a similar written ending
Spelling suggestions; these are not verified phonetic rhymes.
Recorded combinations with Rose
2 source-reported compound forms include this name as a component. Each part keeps its own history.
Names in this collection
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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.
- Wikidata given-name item Q3585338 — Rose (opens in a new tab)
Given-name identity, native labels, language associations and explicit class where present; not lexical meaning or population frequency.
- Wikidata — Rose Ann Gonzales (opens in a new tab)
Explicit given-name claim P735 linking to Q3585338 and citizenship claim P27 linking to Philippines Q928; community-edited evidence, not a civil-registry record.
- Wikidata — Rose Fostanes (opens in a new tab)
Explicit given-name claim P735 linking to Q3585338 and citizenship claim P27 linking to Philippines Q928; community-edited evidence, not a civil-registry record.
- Wiktionary contributors — Rose (Tagalog) (opens in a new tab)
Explicit given-name sense and separately attributed etymology; no birth-frequency claim.
- Wiktionary contributors — Rose (Cebuano) (opens in a new tab)
Explicit given-name sense and separately attributed etymology; no birth-frequency claim.
- Wiktionary contributors — Rose (English) (opens in a new tab)
Language-specific given-name etymology; shared spelling does not prove every bearer has this origin.
- Wiktionary contributors — Rose (English) (opens in a new tab)
Language-specific given-name etymology; shared spelling does not prove every bearer has this origin.
- Behind the Name — Rose (opens in a new tab)
Onomastic account consulted for this exact name or its explicitly linked name family.