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Meaning of the nameRosemberg

Rosemberg is a Brazilian male name formed from rose(m)- and -berg, elements of Latin and Germanic origin.

Meaning

The meaning of Rosemberg is not known for certain. No reliable source documents it, so we give none; below are the origin of the spelling and the official figures.

People (2022)
1,897
Rank in Brazil
#5,281
Median age
43 years
2010 Census
2,027
people

Rosemberg in the 2022 Census

People with the first name Rosemberg, by the decade they were born. In the chart, 70 = the 1970s and 20+ = 2020 to 2022. The largest group was born in the 1980s (675 people).

32 women 1,865 men

Source: IBGE, 2022 Demographic Census, Nomes no Brasil. The census counts the first name of people alive in 2022; small counts are not published, and the first group covers everyone born before 1940. How to read these data.

Where the name Rosemberg is most common

States with the highest share of people named Rosemberg in the population, in the 2022 Census.

  1. Rio Grande do Norte 0.005%
  2. Rio de Janeiro 0.003%
  3. Paraíba 0.003%
  4. Pernambuco 0.002%
  5. Ceará 0.001%
All states
StatePeople% of population
Rio de Janeiro4680.003%
Minas Gerais1810.001%
São Paulo1690.000%
Rio Grande do Norte1490.005%
Pernambuco1380.002%
Bahia1280.001%
Ceará1200.001%
Paraíba1120.003%
Amazonas730.002%
Goiás520.001%
Pará430.001%
Espírito Santo370.001%
Distrito Federal370.001%
Maranhão320.001%
Alagoas310.001%
Piauí190.001%
Paraná170.000%
Sergipe170.001%

States with fewer than 15 people with the name are not shown: IBGE does not publish those counts.

About the name Rosemberg

The Dicionário de Nomes em Uso no Brasil (Dictionary of Names in Use in Brazil) analyzes Rosemberg as rose(m)- + -berg and lists Rosenberg, Rosenbergue, Rosembergue, Rozemberg and Rozembergue as spelling variants. According to the Morfemário of the same dictionary, the formative Rose- is a fragment of Rosa or of English Rose, both from Latin rosae ('rose'), and -berg comes from Germanic berg ('mountain'), as in Gutemberg and Lindberg. The meaning of the name as a whole is not documented. In the 2022 Census, IBGE recorded 1,897 people named Rosemberg, with a median age of 43. Proportionally, it is most common in Rio Grande do Norte. It is almost always a male name.

Sources

  1. Dicionário de Nomes em Uso no Brasil: Rosemberg · dicionariodenomesdobrasil.com.br · origin
  2. Dicionário de Nomes em Uso no Brasil, Morfemário: ROSA-, ROSE-, ROSI- e -BERG · dicionariodenomesdobrasil.com.br · origin

Questions about the name Rosemberg

What does the name Rosemberg mean?

The meaning of Rosemberg is not known for certain: no reliable source documents it. So we give no meaning; the page shows the origin of the spelling and the official figures.

How many people are named Rosemberg in Brazil?

IBGE's 2022 Census recorded 1,897 people with the first name Rosemberg, which ranks it number 5,281 among the country's names. The largest group was born in the 1980s.

Is Rosemberg a boy's or a girl's name?

Rosemberg is a male name: in the 2022 Census, 32 women and 1,865 men had this name.

In which Brazilian state is Rosemberg most common?

Proportionally, in Rio Grande do Norte: 0.005% of the state's population is named Rosemberg (149 people), according to the 2022 Census.

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