Rosana

• Spanish:/rosana/○(machine-generated) model-generated
• Portuguese:/hoˈzɐ.na/●(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary

Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.

Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.

Rosana is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

• Spanish60%

  Combinación de Rosa y Ana; también variante de Roxana.

  as a name·Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios

• Portuguese32%

  a female given name, equivalent to English Roxanne or Rosanne

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Rosana, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.

• Primrose
• Rosette
• Rosabella
• Rosalba
• Rosamund

From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.

Rosana is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• English given name13 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Philippines, United Kingdom, Spain

  Languages: English, German, Dutch

  Also written Roşana, Rośana, Rösańa

• Hindi given name10 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in India, United States, Spain, Philippines

  Languages: Hindi, Bangla, Urdu

  Also written Rosanna, রোসানা, Rośana

• a separate name3 spellings in the group

  Also written Rośana, Rosâna

• Russian given name36 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Russia, Croatia, Ukraine, United States

  Languages: Russian, Croatian, Ukrainian

  Also written Розана, Росана, Rozana, Rossana, Рошана

• English given name130 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, India, Malaysia, United Kingdom

  Languages: English, Hindi, Bangla

  Also written Rosina, Rojina, Rosnah, Rozina, রোজিনা

• Hungarian given name4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Hungary, Spain, United States, Argentina

  Languages: Hungarian, Finnish, Estonian

  Also written Rösänä

52 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Rosana is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• passionate; touchstone; quicksilver

  as a name·The Penguin book of Hindu names for boys

• Como una rosa

  as a name·25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado

• In Finnish, essive singular of Rosa

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

• Rossana San Juanb. 1969MXnot in their usual nameactress
• Rosana dos Santos Augustob. 1982BRBrazilian association football player
• Rosana Sullivanb. 1983USAmerican artist, writer, and director

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.

82 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 46 countries.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

What does the name Rosana mean, and where does it come from?

a female given name, equivalent to English Roxanne or Rosanne Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).

Is Rosana a male or female name?

Rosana is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: Brazil (IBGE, 2022), Spain (INE), United States (Census Bureau, 2020) and France (INSEE, 2015), among others.

What are other forms of the name Rosana?

In the etymology graph, Roxana, Roxanne and Rossana are forms of the same name in other languages.

How do you pronounce Rosana?

It depends on the language: in Spanish /rosana/; in Portuguese /hoˈzɐ.na/ (Wiktionary). Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.

Which countries have the most people named Rosana?

In Brazil, the national register counted about 177 thousand people named Rosana, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled rosana. After it come Argentina, Philippines, Venezuela and Peru; the country table on this page ranks them.

How common is the name Rosana?

In Brazil, the national register counted 176,603 people named Rosana in 2022, about 1 in 1.2 thousand residents.

How common is Rosana compared with other names?

In Brazil, Rosana is the 188th most common given name of 474,894 given names recorded there.