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Red or red-haired, in the Italian feminine naming tradition.
The Italian personal-name entry for Rossella explicitly connects the Rossa/Rosso name family with hair colour. The Italian adjective rosso, feminine rossa, supplies the red/red-haired sense. This account is limited to that Italian naming tradition and does not establish the history of every same-spelled name.
Italian feminine name in the Rossa/Rosso hair-colour naming family.
The Italian personal-name entry connects Rossella with the older Rossa/Rosso name family and explicitly gives a hair-colour association. A precise date of creation is not assigned from its brief historical account.
Not yet published for this spelling.
Counts apply only to the exact spelling, place, year and recorded usage shown. Places are separate; these figures are never added into a worldwide total. Missing or suppressed records never mean zero.
| Place | Year | Recorded usage | Published births | Rank | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| France | 1964 | Girls | 5 (rounded to 5) | 1838 | Counts are rounded to the nearest multiple of five. Ranks use unrounded publisher counts with randomly ordered ties; equally rounded counts can have different ranks. National coverage excludes Mayotte before 2012. Missing years are unavailable, not zero. Automated direction labels are withheld for this rounded-count series. Rank basis: source published. |
| England & Wales | 2007 | Girls | 3 | 5201 | Historical source: not all years independently cross-checked. Rank basis: source published. |
| United States | 2021 | Girls | 7 | 12206 | Source-reported counts; unpublished names are not zero. Rank basis: calculated from published counts. |
Canada, Ireland and France coverage includes confidently matched existing profiles only; unmatched spellings are awaiting review. French counts are rounded to five.
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The exact English personal-name entry documents borrowing of this feminine name from Italian. It supplies no full English pronunciation. Credit: Wiktionary contributors, exact Rossella entries. Sources: https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=Rossella&oldid=70332903. License: CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Adaptation: Rare Baby Names summarized the documented name route or language-specific relationship. No source audio, images or quotations reused.
Credit: Wiktionary contributors. Adapted by Rare Baby Names: wording shortened and name contexts separated. Recorded pronunciations are shown as published.
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The exact Italian personal-name sections document feminine naming use in this name family. This is a historical language-specific tradition, not a restriction on all contemporary bearers or all reporting-country records. Credit: Wiktionary contributors, exact ItalianRossella, Rossa entries. Sources: https://it.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=Rossella&oldid=3363657; https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=Rossa&oldid=87687409. License: CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Adaptation: Rare Baby Names summarized the documented name route or language-specific relationship. No source audio, images or quotations reused.
Credit: Wiktionary contributors. Adapted by Rare Baby Names: wording shortened and name contexts separated. Recorded pronunciations are shown as published.
This adapted text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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The Italian personal-name entry for Rossella explicitly connects the Rossa/Rosso name family with hair colour. The Italian adjective rosso, feminine rossa, supplies the red/red-haired sense. This account is limited to that Italian naming tradition and does not establish the history of every same-spelled name. Credit: Wiktionary contributors, exact ItalianRossella, ItalianRed, Rossa entries. Sources: https://it.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=Rossella&oldid=3363657; https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=rosso&oldid=89977215; https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=Rossa&oldid=87687409. License: CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Adaptation: Rare Baby Names summarized the documented name route or language-specific relationship. No source audio, images or quotations reused.
Credit: Wiktionary contributors. Adapted by Rare Baby Names: wording shortened and name contexts separated. Recorded pronunciations are shown as published.
This adapted text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
CC BY-SA 4.0
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The Italian personal-name entry connects Rossella with the older Rossa/Rosso name family and explicitly gives a hair-colour association. A precise date of creation is not assigned from its brief historical account. Credit: Wiktionary contributors, exact ItalianRossella, ItalianRed entries. Sources: https://it.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=Rossella&oldid=3363657; https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=rosso&oldid=89977215. License: CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Adaptation: Rare Baby Names summarized the documented name route or language-specific relationship. No source audio, images or quotations reused.
Credit: Wiktionary contributors. Adapted by Rare Baby Names: wording shortened and name contexts separated. Recorded pronunciations are shown as published.
This adapted text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
CC BY-SA 4.0
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Explicit personal-name alternative in the Italian Rossella entry. The relationship does not merge reporting-country popularity series or transfer pronunciation evidence. Credit: Wiktionary contributors, exact ItalianRossella entries. Sources: https://it.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=Rossella&oldid=3363657. License: CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Adaptation: Rare Baby Names summarized the documented name route or language-specific relationship. No source audio, images or quotations reused.
Credit: Wiktionary contributors. Adapted by Rare Baby Names: wording shortened and name contexts separated. Recorded pronunciations are shown as published.
This adapted text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
CC BY-SA 4.0
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Attribution: Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence
License: Open Government Licence v3.0
Attribution: U.S. Social Security Administration
Credit: Source : Insee, Fichier des prénoms, updated 16 July 2026.
License: Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab)
Adaptation: Adapted by Rare Baby Names: column names and sex codes mapped and unique case-only spellings matched to existing profiles. Published rounded counts and ranks retained.
