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Girl · French compound
Rose-Anna
Say it: rohz-ah-NAH
Meaning
A compound of Rose (Latin rosa) and Anna (Hebrew Hannah 'grace').
Certainscholars agree on this meaning.
Its wave through time
Fading since the 1950s
In the United States
- 5,719 babies given this name since 1880
- At its height in 1950, about 1 in 6,200 girls
- 22 babies in 2020
Through the ages
Used by
The family of the name
Other spellings: Roseanna
Famous bearers
- Rose-Anna Lacasse, mother in Gabrielle Roy's novel Bonheur d'occasion
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Where this comes from
- Parish baptism registers
- Well-known works of literature
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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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.