Rose
Meaning of Rose
Rose – pronounced simply ROHZ, as clear and bright as a spring bell – traces her roots to the Latin “rosa,” the very word that perfumes Italian poetry and the gardens of Firenze alike. One can almost see her strolling out of a Renaissance canvas, petals for petticoats, offering both sweetness and quiet strength. Historically, the name first budded in medieval England, spread its vines through continental Europe, and found a particularly sunny perch in Italy, where La Rosa symbolizes beauty seasoned by thorns of resilience. In America she bloomed spectacularly during the Roaring Twenties, slipped into a gentle dormancy mid-century, then—like any good climber—sent up fresh shoots in the 21st-century nursery charts, now hovering around the 115th spot. Parents are drawn to her effortless duality: she is at once the patron saint of Lima, the heroine of Titanic, and the floral emblem of romance, yet she also carries the quiet scientific charm of the Rosaceae family, whose ordered petals appeal to the botanist at heart. A whisper of humor accompanies her: no matter how many modern inventions sprout up, Rose refuses to be upstaged—after all, you can’t download fragrance. Classic, lyrical, and forever in season, Rose offers a name that needs little pruning to remain fresh for a lifetime.
Pronunciation
British English
- Pronunced as ROHZ (/rəʊz/)
American English
- Pronunced as ROHZ (/roʊz/)
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Notable People Named Rose
| Rose McGowan - Rosa Arianna McGowan is an American actress and activist who earned an Independent Spirit Award nomination for The Doom Generation, broke out with Scream, and later starred in Going All the Way, Devil in the Flesh, and Jawbreaker. |
| Rose Wilder Lane, daughter of Laura Ingalls Wilder, was an American writer and a key early advocate of libertarianism alongside Ayn Rand and Isabel Paterson. |
| Mary Rose Byrne is an Australian actress known for Star Wars Episode II Attack of the Clones, Troy, 28 Weeks Later, Bridesmaids, and the X-Men films, with two AACTA Awards, a Silver Bear, a Volpi Cup, and nominations for two Primetime Emmys and two Golden Globes. |
| Rose of Lima, a Dominican tertiary in Lima, Peru, became renowned for austere penance and compassionate care for the poor. |
| Rose Philippine Duchesne was a French religious sister and educator who became a missionary in America, was canonized in 1988, and is remembered for caring for and educating Indigenous American survivors of United States Indian removal. |
| Rose Leslie is a Scottish actress known for Downton Abbey, Game of Thrones, The Good Fight, and The Time Traveler’s Wife. |
| Rose Hawthorne Lathrop, known as Mother Mary Alphonsa, was an American Dominican sister, writer, social worker, and founder of the Dominican Sisters of Hawthorne. |
| Rose Kennedy - Rose Elizabeth Fitzgerald Kennedy was an American philanthropist and socialite, matriarch of the Kennedy family and mother of President John F. Kennedy, who was honored as a Papal countess in 1951. |
| Rose Butler Jackson is an Australian Labor Party politician, a NSW Legislative Council member since 2019 and, since 2023, a Minns government minister for housing, water, homelessness, mental health, youth, and the North Coast, and a former NSW Labor assistant general secretary. |
| Rose of Viterbo was a young recluse from Viterbo who championed the papacy and is venerated as a Catholic saint for her reported prophecies and miracles. |
| Rose Osang Fostanes is a Filipina singer based in Israel who won the first season of The X Factor Israel in 2014 and later released her debut album My Way with Star Records. |
| Rose Mary Woods was Richard Nixons secretary from 1951 to the end of his political career and served as his gatekeeper before HR Haldeman and John Ehrlichman took over his presidential campaign operations. |
| Rose Bertram is a Belgian model. |
| Rose Stone is a singer and keyboardist best known as a lead singer in Sly and the Family Stone, founded by her brothers Sly and Freddie Stone. |
