Thirty years of Rosa
Rosa in numbers
Rosa has climbed from 63 girls in 1996 to 470 in 2025, close to its peak of 486 in 2024. Its biggest three-year rise came between 2020 and 2023, from 314 to 458. It ranked 459th in 1996, reached 94th in 2024 and ranks 96th now. On average it was given to 85 girls a year in the late 1990s, 128 in the 2000s, 268 in the 2010s and 402 in the 2020s so far.
† Shapes, averages and turning points are Baby Data calculations from the ONS counts.
Milestones
First year in each bandChange
- On last year-3%486 to 470
- 5 years+50%314 to 470
- 10 years+56%301 to 470
- 20 years+316%113 to 470
- Since 1996×763 to 470
- Total, 1996 to 20256,706girls
† All changes and totals are Baby Data calculations from ONS counts. A total adds only the published years.
Across the three nations, 2025
Each from its own statistics office, never added togetherRank 96 · ONS · 486 in 2024
Rank 86 · NRS · 40 in 2024
Rank 62 · NISRA · 27 in 2024
England and Wales (ONS) count births in the calendar year; Scotland (NRS) and Northern Ireland (NISRA) count births registered in the year. Each comes from its own statistics office and they are never added together.
Year by year, 1996 to 2025 Show all 30 yearsHide the table
| Year | Rank | Babies | Change† | 1 in X† |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 96 | 470 | -3% | 1 in 606 |
| 2024 | 94 | 486 | +6% | 1 in 596 |
| 2023 | 105 | 458 | +34% | 1 in 629 |
| 2022 | 144 | 341 | -1% | 1 in 865 |
| 2021 | =152 | 343 | +9% | 1 in 888 |
| 2020 | =160 | 314 | -5% | 1 in 954 |
| 2019 | 154 | 331 | -2% | 1 in 940 |
| 2018 | =156 | 339 | +7% | 1 in 942 |
| 2017 | 172 | 317 | +9% | 1 in 1,044 |
| 2016 | 189 | 290 | -4% | 1 in 1,170 |
| 2015 | =183 | 301 | +31% | 1 in 1,129 |
| 2014 | =225 | 229 | -8% | 1 in 1,478 |
| 2013 * | =204 | 249 | +21% | 1 in 1,371 |
| 2012 | =246 | 206 | +0% | 1 in 1,725 |
| 2011 | =245 | 205 | -1% | 1 in 1,722 |
| 2010 | =238 | 208 | +8% | 1 in 1,693 |
| 2009 | 250 | 193 | +29% | 1 in 1,783 |
| 2008 | =311 | 150 | -7% | 1 in 2,305 |
| 2007 | =291 | 162 | -9% | 1 in 2,071 |
| 2006 | =263 | 179 | +58% | 1 in 1,828 |
| 2005 | =354 | 113 | -3% | 1 in 2,790 |
| 2004 | =331 | 117 | +27% | 1 in 2,661 |
| 2003 | =394 | 92 | -7% | 1 in 3,294 |
| 2002 | =353 | 99 | +18% | 1 in 2,930 |
| 2001 | =381 | 84 | -6% | 1 in 3,452 |
| 2000 | 368 | 89 | +1% | 1 in 3,312 |
| 1999 | =367 | 88 | -19% | 1 in 3,439 |
| 1998 | =328 | 108 | +32% | n/a |
| 1997 | =387 | 82 | +30% | 1 in 3,823 |
| 1996 | =459 | 63 | 1 in 5,016 |
* ONS’s girls’ 2013 file repeats the May total as April, so the 2013 births total is about 1,360 too high and 1 in X for 2013 is slightly too high. 1 in X is not shown for girls in 1998: one monthly total is missing from the ONS girls’ 1998 file. Rank follows ONS: names with the same count share a rank (shown with =). “Under 3” means the name was given to fewer than 3 babies that year, so ONS did not publish it.
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Source: Office for National Statistics, Baby names in England and Wales, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0; National Records of Scotland; NISRA. Exact spellings are counted separately and names given to fewer than 3 babies are not published. Figures marked † are Baby Data calculations. How we calculate
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