Rosamond Forename

120,185th
Most Common
name in the World

Approximately 3,492 people bear this name

Most prevalent in:
United States
Highest density in:
Anguilla

Rosamond Forename Definition:

A female name. Old German Rosamunda, compound of hros or ros ‘horse’ and munda ‘protection’. In the Middle Ages, however, it was regarded as a Latin name rosa + munda = pure or clean rose'. It was introduced into England by the Normans, a famous example being Rosamund Clifford (d.

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Rosamond Forename Distribution

PlaceGenderIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States
100%
2,0711:175,0546,515
England
100%
9171:60,6362,685
Philippines
 
90%
781:1,359,09633,781
Wales
100%
621:49,9081,736
Canada
100%
611:543,17013,868
Scotland
100%
451:118,8972,628
Guyana
100%
431:17,7502,281
South Africa
100%
321:1,704,14553,740
Nigeria
100%
241:7,398,51598,458
Jamaica-231:125,3584,894
Trinidad and Tobago
100%
161:85,0896,268
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
100%
141:7,9701,208
Belize
100%
111:32,2102,977
Grenada
100%
91:12,0141,427
Ghana
100%
91:2,998,4685,965
Israel
100%
71:1,200,41715,461
Australia-71:1,951,08917,897
Saint Kitts and Nevis-51:10,9721,354
India
100%
51:242,975,5942,326,743
China-41:341,513,94678,144
Netherlands
100%
41:4,225,52128,563
Jersey-31:33,3271,495
Uganda
100%
31:13,652,30774,436
Papua New Guinea
100%
21:4,076,157155,819
Norway-21:2,566,16424,989
Spain-21:23,264,98224,876
Northern Ireland
100%
21:921,5733,058
Honduras-21:4,408,73423,808
Ireland
100%
21:2,321,7608,894
Anguilla
100%
21:6,628945
France-21:33,235,17058,100
Barbados-21:144,8942,643
Cameroon-21:10,805,25286,897
Saint Lucia
100%
11:177,8158,104
Zimbabwe
100%
11:15,423,817113,731
United States Virgin Islands-11:109,7474,493
Antigua and Barbuda-11:99,3953,544
Aruba-11:103,7802,838
Bahamas-11:399,3704,606
Singapore-11:6,287,05439,645
Sierra Leone-11:7,088,6631,497
Belgium-11:11,490,04143,727
Ivory Coast
100%
11:23,075,933135,227
Chile
100%
11:17,607,20848,996
Costa Rica
100%
11:4,767,94827,206
Dominica-11:75,4711,341
Gambia-11:1,926,5961,391
New Zealand-11:4,536,04417,392
Haiti-11:10,726,95341,696
North Macedonia-11:2,090,75715,787
Liberia
100%
11:4,412,06136,340
Hong Kong-11:7,752,72520,144

Rosamond (799) may also be a surname.

Rosamond Forename Meaning

From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history

A female name. Old German Rosamunda, compound of hros or ros ‘horse’ and munda ‘protection’. In the Middle Ages, however, it was regarded as a Latin name rosa + munda = pure or clean rose'. It was introduced into England by the Normans, a famous example being Rosamund Clifford (d. 1176), the unfortunate mistress of Henry II. The surnames Roseaman, Rosomon, Rosemond, Rosamund are derived from it. Rosamund, unlike many names of Germanic origin, survived the Renaissance and was fairly common in the 17th C, usually spelt Rosamond (the French form, cf Edmond for Edmund), held its own in the 18th and 19th C, and is now somewhat more common than it has been for several centuries.

Rosamunda Curia Regis Rolls 1205, 1207, Hundred Rolls 1273. Rosemunda Feudal Aids 1303. Rosamond Feet of Fines 1282. Rossamond Yorks Rec 1604. Rozeman Church Registers of St. James’s, Clerkenwell, 1551-1754 1665.

The Oxford Dictionary of Christian Names (1947) by E. G. Withycombe

A female name. Old German Rosamunda, compound of hros or ros ‘horse’ and munda ‘protection’. In the Middle Ages, however, it was regarded as a Latin name rosa + munda = pure or clean rose'. It was introduced into England by the Normans, a famous example being Rosamund Clifford (d. 1176), the unfortunate mistress of Henry II. The surnames Roseaman, Rosomon, Rosemond, Rosamund are derived from it. Rosamund, unlike many names of Germanic origin, survived the Renaissance and was fairly common in the 17th C, usually spelt Rosamond (the French form, cf Edmond for Edmund), held its own in the 18th and 19th C, and is now somewhat more common than it has been for several centuries.

Rosamunda Curia Regis Rolls 1205, 1207, Hundred Rolls 1273. Rosemunda Feudal Aids 1303. Rosamond Feet of Fines 1282. Rossamond Yorks Rec 1604. Rozeman Church Registers of St. James’s, Clerkenwell, 1551-1754 1665.

The Oxford Dictionary of Christian Names (1947) by E. G. Withycombe

ROSAMUND. The former varies the latter, which occurs first as Hrosmund (or -mond), ‘famous protection’ or, less probably, ‘horse-protection’; the ‘poetical’ explanation, almost certainly erroneous, ‘gave rise to the Latin epigram, Rosa mundiy sed non Rosa munda (the rose of the world, but not a pure rose)’, Yonge.

Name This Child (1959) by Eric Partridge

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