Rosalia (given name)

Rosalia is a feminine given name of Latin origin meaning "rose" and was the name of an early saint Saint Rosalia.^[1] In Latin, the Rosalia was a festival of roses celebrated variously throughout the Roman Empire.

Rosalia

A Rose
Gender	Female
Origin
Word/name	Latin
Meaning	"rose" or "rose festival"
Other names
Related names	Rosa, Rosalie, Rosie, Rosalina

Variants

• Rosalia or Lia (Italian)
• Rosália (Portuguese)
• Rosalía (Galician and Spanish)
• Rosalia or Lia (Catalan, Indonesian)
• Rosalie (French)
• Rosaly, Rosalia or Rosalie (English)
• Rozália (Hungarian)
• Rozalia (Polish)
• Rozalija (Latvian, Lithuanian, Slovene and Croatian)
• Zala (Slovene)

Notable people

• Rosalía Arteaga (born 1956), Ecuadorian politician
• Rosalia Lombardo (1918–1920), Italian child famous for her well-preserved mummy
• Rosalía Mera (1944–2013), Spanish billionaire businesswoman
• Rosalia Price (fl. 1790), British circus artist
• Rosalía de Castro (1837–1885), Spanish romanticist writer
• Rosalía (singer) (born 1992), Spanish singer
• Saint Rosalia, patron saint of Palermo in Italy