Rosebud · Shortlist Together

Meaning

We don’t have a verified meaning for Rosebud.

We only publish meanings we can cite to a source you could check yourself. Most sites will give you one anyway; the ones you find elsewhere are often copied between sites without verification.

Its story

Popularity since 1888

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Per million girls born. Years with fewer than five births are not in the record, so the line breaks rather than dropping to zero.

See the 55 recorded years as a table

Rosebud, per million girls born. Years absent from the table had fewer than five births.
Year	Per million
1888	34
1894	27
1896	21
1897	34
1899	21
1900	30
1901	21
1902	23
1903	31
1904	40
1905	27
1906	27
1907	35
1908	30
1909	29
1910	18
1911	14
1912	18
1913	21
1914	33
1915	19
1916	18
1917	20
1918	19
1919	31
1920	28
1921	32
1922	27
1923	27
1924	19
1925	16
1926	17
1927	27
1928	15
1929	13
1930	10
1931	11
1932	13
1933	12
1934	8
1936	10
1937	9
1938	9
1939	6
1941	10
1942	4
1943	10
1944	6
1945	5
1948	5
1949	4
1950	4
1952	4
1956	2
1973	3

Where it’s loved

Most popular in these states

Rosebud isn’t concentrated in any one state. Either it’s spread evenly, or no state reaches the 25 births over three years needed before a rate means anything.

More like it

More like Rosebud

Rosebud doesn’t share a sound pattern with any other girls name in this corpus — about 1 name in 100 doesn’t. There’s nothing to compare it to yet.

The numbers

Every figure

Births in 1973: 5
Rank in 1973: #8,423
How rare: 1 in 291,641 girls
Since 1888: 738

Rosebud was last recorded in 1973. Fewer than five girls have been given the name in any year since, which is the point below which the record stops reporting.

Most popular in 1904, at 40 per million girls born.

There isn’t enough data for a ten-year trend: Rosebud doesn’t appear in both ends of that window.

Figures from the US Social Security Administration’s 2025 release. How these numbers are made.