Rosalie
Meaning of Rosalie
Rosalie is the French form of Rosalia, from rosa, the Latin word for rose. The name is pronounced roh-ZAY-lee in American English and roh-ZAH-lee in French.
Saint Rosalia, a 12th-century hermit and the patron saint of Palermo, is known in French as Sainte Rosalie. In fiction, Rosalie Hale is a member of the Cullen family in Stephenie Meyer's Twilight series. Canadian jurist Rosalie Abella was the first Jewish woman on the Supreme Court of Canada, where she served from 2004 to 2021.
In the U.S., Rosalie peaked in 1938, the year after the film musical of the same name, ranking 66th with 3,758 babies. It fell as low as 1,672nd in 2007, then climbed quickly from 2009, soon after the first Twilight film. In 2025 it ranked 171st, with 1,797 babies.
Pronunciation
French
- Pronunced as roh-ZAH-lee (/ʁo.za.li/)
American English
- Pronunced as roh-ZAY-lee (/roʊˈzeɪli/)
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Notable People Named Rosalie
| Rosalie E. Wahl - Sara Rosalie Wahl was a pioneering feminist lawyer and judge who became the first woman on the Minnesota Supreme Court, serving 17 years and advancing gender and racial equity and clinical legal education while authoring landmark opinions like State v. Russell. |
| Rosalie Mackenzie Poe was an American poet and sister of Edgar Allan Poe. |
| Rosalie Silberman Abella is a Canadian jurist who in 2004 became the first Jewish woman and refugee appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada, serving until her 2021 retirement. |
| Rosalie Rayner, a Johns Hopkins psychology researcher and assistant to John B. Watson, helped conduct the Little Albert study and coauthored 1920s essays, articles, and a book on child development and family bonds. |
| Rosalie Mae Jones, known as Daystar, is a dancer, choreographer, and educator who founded and serves as artistic director of Daystar Contemporary Dance Drama of Indian America. |
| Rosalie Joyce Hixson, later Rosalie Wiherin, was an American wheelchair athlete who medaled at the 1964, 1968, 1972, and 1976 Paralympics. |
| Rosalie Auguste Emma Wunderlich - Rosalie Wunderlich was an Austrian botanist and embryologist at the University of Vienna. |
| Rosalie Dreyer was a Swiss born British nurse and administrator who led the London County Council nursing service and helped pioneer public nursing in Britain. |
| Rosalie Allen was an American country singer songwriter and broadcaster famed for her yodeling who was the Queen of Yodeling and the first woman inducted into the Country Music DJ Hall of Fame. |
| Rosalie Lamorlière - Rosalie Lamorliere, a French domestic servant and Marie Antoinette's last attendant while the queen was imprisoned in the Conciergerie awaiting trial and execution, had one daughter. |
| Rosalie Jo Cunningham is an English singer songwriter who began with Ipso Facto in 2007, formed Purson in 2011, and has performed solo since 2017. |
| Rosalie Van der Gucht was an English theatre director and head of speech and drama at the University of Cape Town, widely regarded as one of the great figures in South African theatre. |
| Rosalie Lalonde is a Canadian wheelchair basketball player who won silver at the 2015 Parapan American Games and competed at the 2016 Rio Paralympics. |
| Rosalie Matondo is a Congolese agronomist serving as minister of the Forest Economy since 2016, after coordinating the national afforestation and reforestation program and advising the head of state. |
| Rosalie La Flesche Farley was a Native American advocate for the autonomy of the Omaha Tribe. |
