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Girl · Spanish (Latin rosarium)
Rosario
Say it: roh-SAH-ryoh
Meaning
Spanish 'rosary', from Nuestra Señora del Rosario.
Certainscholars agree on this meaning.
A staple devotional name in Spain and Portugal since the 19th century; Charo is its familiar form.
Its wave through time
Most used in the 1910s
In the United States
- 16,097 babies given this name since 1896
- At its height in 1917, about 1 in 41,600 girls
- 94 babies in 2020
Through the ages
Used by
SpanishPortugueseMexicanCentral AmericanAndeanArgentineCaribbean
The family of the name
Other spellings: Charo
| Portuguese | Rosário |
|---|---|
| Catalan | Roser |
| Italian | Rosaria |
Famous bearers
- Rosario Castellanos, Mexican poet
Names worth a look
Where this comes from
- Calendars of saints and name days
- National birth statistics of European countries source
- Parish baptism registers
- Colonial records of the Americas
- National census records of the 19th and 20th centuries
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
Meanings and histories are compiled from the study of names and their languages and checked by a second review.
Meanings and histories are drawn from the study of names and their languages, each with a confidence rating; popularity figures come from official birth records. Name histories are a living field: if you know of a correction, we would be glad to hear it.