Fun Facts About the Name Rosaleigh
- More than 1 thousand babies named Rosaleigh: U.S. records list 1,032 babies given the name Rosaleigh from 1880 through 2025.
What Does the Name Rosaleigh Mean?
Rosaleigh is a compound-style feminine name built from two familiar elements: the rose word, Latin rosa and French rose, and the English place-name and surname element Leigh, from Old English lēah, meaning "woodland clearing" or "meadow." Read by its parts, the name means "rose meadow" or "rose clearing."
The -leigh spelling also sets the name beside Rosalie, the French form of the Latin name Rosalia. That name comes from the Roman festival called the Rosalia, at which roses were offered at graves, and it goes back to the same rosa. Under this second reading, the ending is not a separate word at all, and the name means simply "rose." Both readings share the rose element; they differ only in whether the final syllable is an English place-name word or a respelling of the -lie of Rosalie.
The rose word itself is a flower name rather than a symbolic one. Latin rosa is generally traced to Greek rhodon, and the two are usually connected with an older Iranian source. Christian and poetic tradition later attached the rose to the Virgin Mary and to martyrdom, but those are later associations, not the name's etymology.
Rosaleigh Name History & Origins
Rosalie entered English use from French. Its Latin ancestor Rosalia was also a saint's name: the medieval Sicilian hermit Rosalia, venerated in Palermo as the city's patron. French Rosalie was carried into English-speaking countries, where it has been used steadily rather than in a single wave.
Leigh as a separate element comes from Old English lēah, which appears in a large number of English place names - Leigh itself is a town in Greater Manchester and a village in Kent - and from those places it became a surname. In the later 20th century, -leigh grew common as a spelling for the final syllable of girls' names in English-speaking countries, added to many different roots, as in Ashleigh, Kayleigh, and Ryleigh.
Names that pair a rose element with that -leigh ending belong to this recent layer of English naming, and Rosaleigh follows the same pattern, blending a long-established rose name with a popular modern spelling of the ending. The elements have deep histories; the combination is a recent arrangement of them.
How Popular is the Name Rosaleigh?
Rosaleigh has historically been an exceptionally rare given name in the United States, remaining well outside the national mainstream. It saw its highest recorded annual births in 2019. Its best rank was #1,840 in 2019.
U.S. name popularity from 1880-2025, based on SSA data. Rank shows how the name compares with other names - lower numbers mean greater popularity. Births shows how many babies received the name each year.
| Year | Rank | Births | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | #2,888 | 59 | 0.0037% |
| 2024 | #2,910 | 57 | 0.0035% |
| 2023 | #2,638 | 67 | 0.0042% |
| 2022 | #2,920 | 58 | 0.0035% |
| 2021 | #2,082 | 92 | 0.0056% |
| 2020 | #2,149 | 85 | 0.0053% |
| 2019 | #1,840 | 111 | 0.0066% |
| 2018 | #2,323 | 79 | 0.0046% |
| 2017 | #1,961 | 102 | 0.0059% |
| 2016 | #2,858 | 60 | 0.0034% |
| 2015 | #3,081 | 55 | 0.0031% |
| 2014 | #3,836 | 40 | 0.0022% |
| 2013 | #3,450 | 46 | 0.0026% |
| 2012 | #4,368 | 34 | 0.0019% |
| 2011 | #5,510 | 25 | 0.0014% |
| 2010 | #8,214 | 15 | 0.0008% |
| 2009 | #7,989 | 16 | 0.0009% |
| 2006 | #19,438 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 2004 | #15,680 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 2003 | #17,823 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 2002 | #17,545 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 2000 | #17,037 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 1994 | #15,217 | 5 | 0.0003% |
Name popularity over more than a century, based on Social Security Administration data. Gaps in the chart indicate years when the name does not appear in the published records.
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