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The first name 
Rosetta

Rosetta is a first name typically given to girls, but in rare cases also used as a boys name.

When two girls called Rosetta meet...

… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Rosetta is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 3 out of 100,000 girls have been named Rosetta. In the SmartGenius ranking, Rosetta is #3,173 on the list of most common girls names. In the entire USA, approximately 21,816 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Rosetta. That is 0.01 % of all living Americans.

You won't believe all there is 
to discover about the name
 
Rosetta

Rosetta -
evergreen, but special

For more than 140 years, parents decide to name their daughter Rosetta annualy. This means that there have been girls named Rosetta who witnessed the first Labor Day parade in the U.S. or followed Albert Einstein's career. The name has 'always been there', but never ranked in the top 100, and thus women named Rosetta have consistently been special. The name was particularly popular a long time ago in the 19th century. In one particular year, long before the first passenger flight and even before there was the first real radio, parents liked Rosetta even more than any other time: in 1881, it holds its present record of rank #217 in the list of the most popular girls' names.

In years where the graph has no value, the name Rosetta was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.

How popular was Rosetta 2022 among young parents?

Rosetta has never been ranked higher than #217. In 2022, she rivaled the 3,568 names that preceded her on the list. In total, 36 girls named Rosetta were born in that year. For comparison: 30 years earlier, in 1992, when possibly the parents of the now very young Rosetta were born, there have been 57 newborns who received this name.

Rosetta has 7 letters 
and begins with an R

Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter R is neither particularly common nor particularly rare as a first letter for girls' names: 4.1% of all common girls' names in the US begin with this letter. The most common first letters of girls' names are A and S, while X and U are the least common initials of girls' names.

With seven letters, the name Rosetta has a typical length for first names in the US. In fact, 26% of all common first names consist of exactly seven letters. 52% of all first names are shorter, while 22% have eight letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.

Thus, it follows that if 4.1% of all girls' names start with an R, this initial letter occurs about as often as all 26 letters on average. And maybe interesting to know: Rebecca is the girls’ name starting with R, which is the most common of all.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Rosetta

If your name is Rosetta and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...

This is how you spell the name Rosetta

So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Rosetta, you can simply say:

Rocket

Orange

Sun

Elephant

Tiger

Tiger

Apple

This is how the name Rosetta is spelled in the NATO phonetic alphabet

The NATO alphabet often helps people spell words on the phone or radio when there are communication problems.

How do you write Rosetta in Braille?

Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.

Rosetta

Rosetta

You want to tell a deaf person that your name is Rosetta

Just use American Sign Language!

The name Rosetta is particularly colorful in the Semaphore flag signaling system!

These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.

R
O
S
E
T
T
A

Have you ever waved the name Rosetta

In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.

R
O
S
E
T
T
A

Beeping like crazy...

In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Rosetta sounds like this: