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Rossana

“luminous, shining”

feminineLatin script

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Swedish

Origin: Not established
4 language contexts: Spanish Italian Danish +1 more
Follow the evidence: 11 cited sources Source-reported

01 / Meaning & origin

About Rossana

Rossana is a feminine given name documented in Spanish, Italian, Danish and 1 other language. Italian Wikipedia gives the meaning “luminous, shining”.

2 source accounts

Meaning in the sources

Source-reported

Meaning: “luminous, shining”

(Prénom) Du latin Roxane.

Sources for this account (9)

French Wiktionary: RossanaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Wikidata Q18611813CC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Wiktionary: RossanaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Greek Wiktionary: RossanaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Spanish Wiktionary: RossanaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Italian Wiktionary: RossanaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Polish Wiktionary: RossanaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Russian Wiktionary: RossanaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Wikipedia (it): Rossana (nome)CC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

Explore 1 more accountHide additional accountsSource accounts may describe the same origin.

Portuguese Wiktionary accountSource-reportedDeriva do persa Raushana.

Deriva do persa Raushana.

Sources for this account (1)

Portuguese Wiktionary: RossanaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14

02 / Across borders

Where Rossana is used

Explore published naming statistics and documented language connections around the world.

The name atlas

Across borders

countries in our sources

Select a country to follow Rossana’s connections around the world.

6 countries with published statistics. Language records show cultural connections; they do not measure how common a name is.

Selected country

United States

Published statistics

United States, 2025: 5 girls (rank 14942).

Explore United States

4 of 11 countries

03 / By the numbers

Popularity over time

Follow the spelling through the years, one published dataset at a time.

United States

1880–2025 Spelling: Rossana

Region and dataset

Recorded category girls

Latest · 2025: 5; applications; Rank #14,942
Peak year: 1956; 43 applications

Hover to explore a year. Use arrow keys when a chart point has focus.

Source: US Social Security Administration; redistributed by nkrishnaswami · SSA national baby names, 1880–2025 (CC0 redistribution)

Integer application counts retained without rounding.

Per million is unavailable: this source has no matching published total.

Show the data table

Rossana in United States, girls: applications and rank by year
Year	Applications	Rank	Status
1880	no value	no value	not covered
1881	no value	no value	not covered
1882	no value	no value	not covered
1883	no value	no value	not covered
1884	no value	no value	not covered
1885	no value	no value	not covered
1886	no value	no value	not covered
1887	no value	no value	not covered
1888	no value	no value	not covered
1889	no value	no value	not covered
1890	no value	no value	not covered
1891	no value	no value	not covered
1892	no value	no value	not covered
1893	no value	no value	not covered
1894	no value	no value	not covered
1895	no value	no value	not covered
1896	no value	no value	not covered
1897	no value	no value	not covered
1898	no value	no value	not covered
1899	no value	no value	not covered
1900	no value	no value	not covered
1901	no value	no value	not covered
1902	no value	no value	not covered
1903	no value	no value	not covered
1904	no value	no value	not covered
1905	no value	no value	not covered
1906	no value	no value	not covered
1907	no value	no value	not covered
1908	no value	no value	not covered
1909	no value	no value	not covered
1910	no value	no value	not covered
1911	no value	no value	not covered
1912	no value	no value	not covered
1913	no value	no value	not covered
1914	no value	no value	not covered
1915	no value	no value	not covered
1916	no value	no value	not covered
1917	no value	no value	not covered
1918	no value	no value	not covered
1919	no value	no value	not covered
1920	no value	no value	not covered
1921	no value	no value	not covered
1922	no value	no value	not covered
1923	no value	no value	not covered
1924	no value	no value	not covered
1925	no value	no value	not covered
1926	no value	no value	not covered
1927	no value	no value	not covered
1928	no value	no value	not covered
1929	no value	no value	not covered
1930	no value	no value	not covered
1931	no value	no value	not covered
1932	no value	no value	not covered
1933	no value	no value	not covered
1934	no value	no value	not covered
1935	no value	no value	not covered
1936	no value	no value	not covered
1937	no value	no value	not covered
1938	no value	no value	not covered
1939	no value	no value	not covered
1940	no value	no value	not covered
1941	no value	no value	not covered
1942	no value	no value	not covered
1943	no value	no value	not covered
1944	no value	no value	not covered
1945	no value	no value	not covered
1946	no value	no value	not covered
1947	no value	no value	not covered
1948	no value	no value	not covered
1949	no value	no value	not covered
1950	no value	no value	not covered
1951	no value	no value	not covered
1952	no value	no value	not covered
1953	no value	no value	not covered
1954	10	3,718	observed
1955	15	2,971	observed
1956	43	1,617	observed
1957	26	2,168	observed
1958	22	2,449	observed
1959	16	2,980	observed
1960	21	2,649	observed
1961	22	2,608	observed
1962	24	2,463	observed
1963	19	2,864	observed
1964	31	2,151	observed
1965	20	2,744	observed
1966	25	2,407	observed
1967	31	2,117	observed
1968	16	3,315	observed
1969	16	3,461	observed
1970	20	3,208	observed
1971	18	3,508	observed
1972	25	2,747	observed
1973	16	3,787	observed
1974	20	3,313	observed
1975	19	3,514	observed
1976	11	5,215	observed
1977	14	4,652	observed
1978	17	4,079	observed
1979	16	4,420	observed
1980	12	5,544	observed
1981	14	4,963	observed
1982	19	4,025	observed
1983	17	4,286	observed
1984	11	5,899	observed
1985	19	4,126	observed
1986	12	5,757	observed
1987	19	4,283	observed
1988	26	3,585	observed
1989	22	4,248	observed
1990	14	6,131	observed
1991	12	6,976	observed
1992	13	6,652	observed
1993	9	8,719	observed
1994	15	5,984	observed
1995	6	11,783	observed
1996	11	7,574	observed
1997	no value	no value	not covered
1998	8	10,122	observed
1999	10	8,805	observed
2000	7	11,801	observed
2001	12	8,196	observed
2002	9	10,246	observed
2003	6	13,844	observed
2004	7	12,761	observed
2005	5	16,462	observed
2006	10	10,611	observed
2007	6	15,491	observed
2008	no value	no value	not covered
2009	10	10,679	observed
2010	13	8,701	observed
2011	no value	no value	not covered
2012	no value	no value	not covered
2013	no value	no value	not covered
2014	no value	no value	not covered
2015	no value	no value	not covered
2016	no value	no value	not covered
2017	no value	no value	not covered
2018	no value	no value	not covered
2019	no value	no value	not covered
2020	no value	no value	not covered
2021	no value	no value	not covered
2022	no value	no value	not covered
2023	no value	no value	not covered
2024	no value	no value	not covered
2025	5	14,942	observed

About this dataset and its counting rules

Statistics count the spelling “Rossana” as recorded by the publisher. When a spelling has several independent origins, the counts are not split between them. Counts measure applications. Gaps are years without a published value, not zeros.

Rates per million are unavailable for this series because no compatible denominator has been imported.

Universe: US national Social Security card applications by name, sex and birth year; not a complete birth registry, especially before 1937.
Rounding: Integer application counts retained without rounding.
Suppression: Only names with at least 5 occurrences in a year and sex are included. Missing observations are not zeros.
Ranking: computed by NameStoria from published counts; ties share a rank, next rank skips. The mirror's derived rank column is not used.

Retrieved 2026-10-15 · CC0-1.0

Read our methodology

04 / Through time

History

Notable bearers

People recorded with this given name in Wikidata. Their names may use a different spelling, or include it as a middle or baptismal name.

Rossana Podestà
1934–2013
Italian actress (1934–2013)
Wikipedia Wikidata source
Rossana Rossanda
1924–2020
Italian journalist and politician (1924-2020)
Wikipedia Wikidata source
Rossana de los Ríos
born 1975
Paraguayan female tennis player
Wikipedia Wikidata source

A little story to keep

A name worth keeping.

Take the story of Rossana with you. Create a personal name passport with its meaning, roots and connections.

06 / Behind the facts

Sources for this page

Review status: Source-reported — no editorial review recorded yet. Last data change 2026-10-15.

Name origins & languageDictionaries, name records and related forms10

Wikidata Q18611813CC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Wiktionary: RossanaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Greek Wiktionary: RossanaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
French Wiktionary: RossanaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Spanish Wiktionary: RossanaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Italian Wiktionary: RossanaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Polish Wiktionary: RossanaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Russian Wiktionary: RossanaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Wikipedia (it): Rossana (nome)CC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Portuguese Wiktionary: RossanaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14

Pronunciation recordingsAudio credits and individual recording licences1

Wikimedia Commons: File:LL-Q9027 (swe)-Moonhouse-Rossana.wavCC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

Statistics and surveysPublishers, dataset licences and retrieval dates7

SSA national baby names, 1880–2025 (CC0 redistribution)
US Social Security Administration; redistributed by nkrishnaswami · CC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Fichier des prénoms — édition 2026 (naissances 1900 à 2025), fichier national
Insee (Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques) · LO-2.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
South Australia — Popular Baby Names, per-year lists including names given once, 1944-2017
Attorney-General's Department, South Australia (via data.sa.gov.au) · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Ontario top baby names, historical archive 1917–2013
Government of Ontario (Office of the Registrar General) · OGL-ON-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Ontario first baby names, 1913–2023 (verified redistribution)
Government of Ontario; redistributed by helloharun · OGL-ON-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Statistik Austria — Vornamen (OGDEXT_VORNAMEN_1): first names of live births, Austria, 1984-2025 (national counts from district rows)
Statistik Austria (Bundesanstalt Statistik Österreich) · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Spain — first names of residents, census snapshot 2025-01-01
Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE), Spain · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

Wiktionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0. Wikidata: CC0. Commons recordings retain their individual file licences. Complete attribution is available in each group above and alongside each chart.

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About Rossana

Rossana is a feminine given name documented in Spanish, Italian, Danish and 1 other language. Italian Wikipedia gives the meaning “luminous, shining”.

2 source accounts

Meaning in the sources

Source-reported

Meaning: “luminous, shining”

(Prénom) Du latin Roxane.

Sources for this account (9)

French Wiktionary: RossanaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Wikidata Q18611813CC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Wiktionary: RossanaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Greek Wiktionary: RossanaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Spanish Wiktionary: RossanaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Italian Wiktionary: RossanaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Polish Wiktionary: RossanaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Russian Wiktionary: RossanaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Wikipedia (it): Rossana (nome)CC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

Explore 1 more accountHide additional accountsSource accounts may describe the same origin.

Portuguese Wiktionary accountSource-reportedDeriva do persa Raushana.

Deriva do persa Raushana.

Sources for this account (1)

Portuguese Wiktionary: RossanaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14

Where Rossana is used

Explore published naming statistics and documented language connections around the world.

The name atlas

Across borders

countries in our sources

Select a country to follow Rossana’s connections around the world.

6 countries with published statistics. Language records show cultural connections; they do not measure how common a name is.

Selected country

United States

Published statistics

United States, 2025: 5 girls (rank 14942).

Explore United States

4 of 11 countries

Popularity over time

Follow the spelling through the years, one published dataset at a time.

United States

1880–2025 Spelling: Rossana

Region and dataset

Recorded category girls

Latest · 2025: 5; applications; Rank #14,942
Peak year: 1956; 43 applications

Hover to explore a year. Use arrow keys when a chart point has focus.

Source: US Social Security Administration; redistributed by nkrishnaswami · SSA national baby names, 1880–2025 (CC0 redistribution)

Integer application counts retained without rounding.

Per million is unavailable: this source has no matching published total.

Show the data table

Rossana in United States, girls: applications and rank by year
Year	Applications	Rank	Status
1880	no value	no value	not covered
1881	no value	no value	not covered
1882	no value	no value	not covered
1883	no value	no value	not covered
1884	no value	no value	not covered
1885	no value	no value	not covered
1886	no value	no value	not covered
1887	no value	no value	not covered
1888	no value	no value	not covered
1889	no value	no value	not covered
1890	no value	no value	not covered
1891	no value	no value	not covered
1892	no value	no value	not covered
1893	no value	no value	not covered
1894	no value	no value	not covered
1895	no value	no value	not covered
1896	no value	no value	not covered
1897	no value	no value	not covered
1898	no value	no value	not covered
1899	no value	no value	not covered
1900	no value	no value	not covered
1901	no value	no value	not covered
1902	no value	no value	not covered
1903	no value	no value	not covered
1904	no value	no value	not covered
1905	no value	no value	not covered
1906	no value	no value	not covered
1907	no value	no value	not covered
1908	no value	no value	not covered
1909	no value	no value	not covered
1910	no value	no value	not covered
1911	no value	no value	not covered
1912	no value	no value	not covered
1913	no value	no value	not covered
1914	no value	no value	not covered
1915	no value	no value	not covered
1916	no value	no value	not covered
1917	no value	no value	not covered
1918	no value	no value	not covered
1919	no value	no value	not covered
1920	no value	no value	not covered
1921	no value	no value	not covered
1922	no value	no value	not covered
1923	no value	no value	not covered
1924	no value	no value	not covered
1925	no value	no value	not covered
1926	no value	no value	not covered
1927	no value	no value	not covered
1928	no value	no value	not covered
1929	no value	no value	not covered
1930	no value	no value	not covered
1931	no value	no value	not covered
1932	no value	no value	not covered
1933	no value	no value	not covered
1934	no value	no value	not covered
1935	no value	no value	not covered
1936	no value	no value	not covered
1937	no value	no value	not covered
1938	no value	no value	not covered
1939	no value	no value	not covered
1940	no value	no value	not covered
1941	no value	no value	not covered
1942	no value	no value	not covered
1943	no value	no value	not covered
1944	no value	no value	not covered
1945	no value	no value	not covered
1946	no value	no value	not covered
1947	no value	no value	not covered
1948	no value	no value	not covered
1949	no value	no value	not covered
1950	no value	no value	not covered
1951	no value	no value	not covered
1952	no value	no value	not covered
1953	no value	no value	not covered
1954	10	3,718	observed
1955	15	2,971	observed
1956	43	1,617	observed
1957	26	2,168	observed
1958	22	2,449	observed
1959	16	2,980	observed
1960	21	2,649	observed
1961	22	2,608	observed
1962	24	2,463	observed
1963	19	2,864	observed
1964	31	2,151	observed
1965	20	2,744	observed
1966	25	2,407	observed
1967	31	2,117	observed
1968	16	3,315	observed
1969	16	3,461	observed
1970	20	3,208	observed
1971	18	3,508	observed
1972	25	2,747	observed
1973	16	3,787	observed
1974	20	3,313	observed
1975	19	3,514	observed
1976	11	5,215	observed
1977	14	4,652	observed
1978	17	4,079	observed
1979	16	4,420	observed
1980	12	5,544	observed
1981	14	4,963	observed
1982	19	4,025	observed
1983	17	4,286	observed
1984	11	5,899	observed
1985	19	4,126	observed
1986	12	5,757	observed
1987	19	4,283	observed
1988	26	3,585	observed
1989	22	4,248	observed
1990	14	6,131	observed
1991	12	6,976	observed
1992	13	6,652	observed
1993	9	8,719	observed
1994	15	5,984	observed
1995	6	11,783	observed
1996	11	7,574	observed
1997	no value	no value	not covered
1998	8	10,122	observed
1999	10	8,805	observed
2000	7	11,801	observed
2001	12	8,196	observed
2002	9	10,246	observed
2003	6	13,844	observed
2004	7	12,761	observed
2005	5	16,462	observed
2006	10	10,611	observed
2007	6	15,491	observed
2008	no value	no value	not covered
2009	10	10,679	observed
2010	13	8,701	observed
2011	no value	no value	not covered
2012	no value	no value	not covered
2013	no value	no value	not covered
2014	no value	no value	not covered
2015	no value	no value	not covered
2016	no value	no value	not covered
2017	no value	no value	not covered
2018	no value	no value	not covered
2019	no value	no value	not covered
2020	no value	no value	not covered
2021	no value	no value	not covered
2022	no value	no value	not covered
2023	no value	no value	not covered
2024	no value	no value	not covered
2025	5	14,942	observed

About this dataset and its counting rules

Rates per million are unavailable for this series because no compatible denominator has been imported.

Universe: US national Social Security card applications by name, sex and birth year; not a complete birth registry, especially before 1937.
Rounding: Integer application counts retained without rounding.
Suppression: Only names with at least 5 occurrences in a year and sex are included. Missing observations are not zeros.
Ranking: computed by NameStoria from published counts; ties share a rank, next rank skips. The mirror's derived rank column is not used.

Retrieved 2026-10-15 · CC0-1.0

Read our methodology

History

Notable bearers

People recorded with this given name in Wikidata. Their names may use a different spelling, or include it as a middle or baptismal name.

Rossana Podestà
1934–2013
Italian actress (1934–2013)
Wikipedia Wikidata source
Rossana Rossanda
1924–2020
Italian journalist and politician (1924-2020)
Wikipedia Wikidata source
Rossana de los Ríos
born 1975
Paraguayan female tennis player
Wikipedia Wikidata source

Sources for this page

Review status: Source-reported — no editorial review recorded yet. Last data change 2026-10-15.

Name origins & languageDictionaries, name records and related forms10

Wikidata Q18611813CC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Wiktionary: RossanaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Greek Wiktionary: RossanaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
French Wiktionary: RossanaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Spanish Wiktionary: RossanaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Italian Wiktionary: RossanaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Polish Wiktionary: RossanaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Russian Wiktionary: RossanaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Wikipedia (it): Rossana (nome)CC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Portuguese Wiktionary: RossanaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14

Pronunciation recordingsAudio credits and individual recording licences1

Wikimedia Commons: File:LL-Q9027 (swe)-Moonhouse-Rossana.wavCC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

Statistics and surveysPublishers, dataset licences and retrieval dates7

SSA national baby names, 1880–2025 (CC0 redistribution)
US Social Security Administration; redistributed by nkrishnaswami · CC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Fichier des prénoms — édition 2026 (naissances 1900 à 2025), fichier national
Insee (Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques) · LO-2.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
South Australia — Popular Baby Names, per-year lists including names given once, 1944-2017
Attorney-General's Department, South Australia (via data.sa.gov.au) · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Ontario top baby names, historical archive 1917–2013
Government of Ontario (Office of the Registrar General) · OGL-ON-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Ontario first baby names, 1913–2023 (verified redistribution)
Government of Ontario; redistributed by helloharun · OGL-ON-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Statistik Austria — Vornamen (OGDEXT_VORNAMEN_1): first names of live births, Austria, 1984-2025 (national counts from district rows)
Statistik Austria (Bundesanstalt Statistik Österreich) · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Spain — first names of residents, census snapshot 2025-01-01
Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE), Spain · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

Wiktionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0. Wikidata: CC0. Commons recordings retain their individual file licences. Complete attribution is available in each group above and alongside each chart.

A story to pass on.

About Rossana

Meaning in the sources

Where Rossana is used

Across borders

United States

Popularity over time

United States

History

Notable bearers

Rossana Podestà

Rossana Rossanda

Rossana de los Ríos

Related names

Different forms. Shared stories.

Meet the family

Related names in the catalogue

A name worth keeping.

Sources for this page

A story to pass on.

About Rossana

Meaning in the sources

Where Rossana is used

Across borders

United States

Popularity over time

United States

History

Notable bearers

Rossana Podestà

Rossana Rossanda

Rossana de los Ríos

Related names

Different forms. Shared stories.

Meet the family

Related names in the catalogue

A name worth keeping.

Sources for this page