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Why parents love Rosalind- As You Like It's Rosalind is Shakespeare's most intelligent heroine.
- Rosalind Franklin discovered DNA's double helix.
- Three syllables with an elegant, literary sound: ROZ-ah-lind.
- The meaning gentle horse/beautiful rose is dually natural.
- Rosa and Lind are both embedded.
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The vibe of Rosalind
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Origin & history of Rosalind
Germanic hros (horse) + lind (gentle) or Latin rosa + lind
→ Rosalind
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Germanic / Latin roots
Rosalind comes from the Germanic meaning gentle horse or reinterpreted as beautiful rose. Shakespeare's Rosalind (As You Like It) is his most intelligent heroine. Rosalind Franklin's X-ray crystallography was essential to discovering DNA.
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First recorded
Earliest known use: Shakespeare's As You Like It (c. 1599); Rosalind Franklin (1920–1958).
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Today
Rosalind remains a beloved choice, ranking #1380 in the US. 26,995 babies have been named Rosalind since 1888.
◈ Sources: Behind the Name, Oxford Dictionary of First Names, SSA data
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How popular is Rosalind?
1965
peak year
Today, Rosalind is rarely chosen — ranked well outside the top 1,000 (around #1380), with only about 166 babies given the name per year. But it wasn't always this way. At its peak in 1965, 652 babies were given the name (ranked #355 nationally). Its strongest stretch was the 1960s. Rosalind's usage has held roughly steady recently. In all, around 26,995 babies have been registered as Rosalind since 1880.
Year-by-year registrations
1880–2024 · U.S. Social Security data
652
Babies named in peak year
(ranked #355)
(ranked #355)
166
Avg. per year
(last decade)
(last decade)
1,660
Total registrations
last 10 years
last 10 years
26,995
All-time total
(since 1880)
(since 1880)
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Numerology of Rosalind2
Life path number
The Peacemaker
Diplomacy, harmony and deep empathy.
Rosalind's Life Path 7 is the seeker's number — double-helix seeking. People named Rosalind tend to be brilliant, literary, and gifted at discovering the structure of life itself.
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Discovers structure of life✦
Shakespeare's-most-intelligent◈
Franklin-DNA◎
Beautiful-rose♡
Gentle-horseR9
O6
S1
A1
L3
I9
N5
D4
Sum: 38 → Life path 2
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Personality of Rosalind🕊️
Peaceful
They bring calm to every room.
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Deeply loving
Their love runs deep and steady.
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Intuitive
They read people with extraordinary accuracy.
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Artistic soul
Beauty speaks to them powerfully.
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