Rosa
Rosa is a girl name of Latin origin, meaning Rose.
What Rosa means
Rose.
Rosa is short — 4 letters, and ends on a vowel, which tends to make a name sound open and carry well when called across a room.
Where Rosa comes from
Latin names travelled through the Roman world and then through the Church, which is why so many survive across Europe in local variants. A great many were originally descriptive — of virtue, of appearance, or of birth order.
Rosa is recorded as Latin in origin. Browse other Latin names.
How popular is Rosa?
Rosa sits outside the top 100 girl names we currently track. For many parents that is the appeal: a name with genuine history behind it that has not been picked up by everyone at once.
The character of Rosa
Two ideas meet in Rosa: flowers and growing things and the long-established classics. Names carrying more than one theme tend to be the ones that suit a wider range of siblings.
Names like Rosa
These share Rosa's themes, origin, or both — closest first.
- Rose — The rose flower.
- Florence — Flourishing; in bloom.
- Aurelia — The golden one.
- Beatrice — She who brings happiness.
- Camila — Perfect, unblemished.
- Clara — Bright, clear, famous.
- Grace — Grace, elegance, divine favor.
- Romilly — Citizen of Rome.
- Rosemary — Dew of the sea; the herb of remembrance.
- Violet — The violet flower; the color purple.
- April — Opening buds of spring.
- Augusta — Great and venerable.