Rosemarie

Combination of Rose and Marie
"rose flower + drop of the sea, bitter, or beloved"

Rosemarie Origin and Meaning

The name Rosemarie is a girl's name of French origin meaning "rose flower + drop of the sea, bitter, or beloved".

Rosemarie had its moment in the sun back in the middle of the last century, when parents were looking for new ways to recycle traditional family names. So a child might combine her two grandma's names and become Rosemarie (or Annmarie or Maryjean), but these combination names feel dated now.

Rosemarie may also be a spelling spin on the botanical name Rosemary, which comes from a different etymological root (and means "dew of the sea").

The meaning of Marie is uncertain, but theories include "drop of the sea" (from Hebrew roots mar "drop" and yam "sea"); "bitter" (from Hebrew marah "bitterness"); and "beloved" (from the Egyptian root mr).

# 911 in the US

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Famous People Named Rosemarie

  • Rosemarie Magdalena Albach
    birth name of Romy Schneider, Austrian actress
  • Rosemarie Bowe
    American actress
  • Rosemarie Braddock DeWitt
    American actress
  • Rosemarie Frankland
    Welsh actress and Miss World 1961
  • Rosemarie Alicia "Rose" Jackson
    American actress
  • Rosemarie Wright
    English pianist
  • Rosemarie Schuder
    German novelist
  • Rosemarie Whyte
    Jamaican Olympic sprinter
  • Rosemarie Gabriel
    German Olympic swimmer
  • Rosemarie "Rosi" Ackermann
    German Olympic high jumper
  • Rosemarie Trockel
    German contemporary artist
  • Rosemarie Gil
    Filipina actress
  • Rosmarie von Trapp
    Austrian,American member of the Von Trapp Family Singers ("Sound of Music")
  • Rose Marie "Rosemary" Kennedy
    sister of U.S. President John F. Kennedy
  • Rose Marie Mazetta
    American actress
  • Rose Marie McCoy
    American songwriter
  • Rosemary "Rose Marie" Magrill
    American dancer and beauty queen; Miss Florida in 1939
  • Rose Marie Emma "Joan" Taylor
    American actress

Rosemarie in Pop Culture

  • Rosemarie "Rose" Hathaway
    main character in Richelle Mead's "Vampire Academy" novels
  • "Fat
    Fat Rose Marie," a picture book
  • "Smile a Little Smile for Me (Rosemarie)
    " 1969 song by The Flying Machines