Rosalind (first name)

Rosalind [ e / a ], also Rosalin, is a female given name .

Origin and meaning

The name is of Germanic origin and is formed from proto-Germanic hrod , Ross 'horse' and gentle , healing ', and finds himself Lombard as Rodelinde , comes with the Goths to Spain, where it is vulgärlatinisiert to, delicate / beautiful rose reinterpreted'.

distribution

The name probably migrates from Old French to the English-speaking area . The name already appears in Edmund Spenser (1552–1599), and then in Thomas Lodge in the novella Rosalynde from 1599. He is known through William Shakespeare's adaptation of the material in the comedy As You Like It from around 1600. Begins as a fashion name it spread from the 18th century, and then increasingly in the time of the double names at the end of the 19th century, probably as an ornamental form to Rosa with Linda , where it changes back to German.

variants

English Rosaleen, Rosalin, Rosalyn [n], Roslyn [n], Rozalind

Name bearers

Rosalind

Rosalind Ayres (* 1946), British theater and film actress
Rosalind Baker (* 1941), Australian author and relationship expert
Rosalind Barnett (* 1937) American social scientist and clinical psychologist
Rosalind Belben (* 1941), English novelist
Rosalind Canter (* 1986), British eventing rider
Rosalind Cash (1938–1995), American actress
Rosalind Chao (* 1957), American actress of Chinese origin
Rosalind Franklin (1920–1958), British biochemist
Rosalind Fuller , MBE (1892–1982), British theater and film actress
Rosalind Grender, Baroness Grender , MBE (* 1962), head of communications for the Liberal Democrats
Rosalind Howells, Baroness Howells of St Davids , OBE (* 1931), British Labor politician
Rosalind Ivan (1880–1959), British film and stage actress
Rosalind Krauss (* 1941), American art critic and theorist, professor and curator
Rosalind Marquis , b. Saindon (1915-2006), actress
Rosalind Moss , FSA (1890–1990), British Egyptologist and bibliographer
Rosalind Picard (* 1962), American electrical engineer
Rosalind Rowe , married. Cornett (1933-2015), English table tennis player
Rosalind Russell (1907–1976), American actress
Rosalind von Schirach (1898–1981), German opera singer (soprano)
Rosalind Scott, Baroness Scott of Needham Market (born 1957), British politician of the Liberal Democrats
Rosalind Singha Ang (* ≈1940), badminton player from Malaysia
Rosalind Tanner , b. Young (1900–1992), British mathematician and mathematician

Rosalinda, Rosalinde

Rosalinde, the wife of Peiting († 14th / 15th century), bog body (name of an unknown person)
Rosalinda Bueso Asfura (* 1977), Honduran diplomat
Rosalinda Celentano (* 1968), Italian actress
Rosalinde Haas (* 1932), German organist
Rosalinde von Ossietzky-Palm (1919–2000), German-Swedish pacifist
Rosalinde Renn (* 1941), German theater and film actress and director

Rosalyn, Rosalynn

Rosalyn Baxandall (1939–2015), American activist and historian of the women's movement
Rosalyn Bryant , married. Clark (* 1956), American sprinter
Rosalynn Carter , b. Smith (* 1927), wife of US President Jimmy Carter
Rosalyn Fairbank (1960), South African tennis player
Rosalyn Higgins , DBE (born 1937), British legal scholar
Rosalyn Landor (born 1958), English actress
Rosalyn Tureck (1913–2003), American concert pianist
Rosalynn Sumners (* 1964), American figure skater
Rosalyn Sussman Yalow (1921–2011), American physicist

Roselyn, Roselyne

Roselyne Bachelot (* 1946), French politician
Roselyne Crausaz (* 1943), Swiss politician
Roselyn Sánchez (* 1973), Puerto Rican actress and singer
Roselyne Titaud (* 1977), French photographer

Roslyn, Rosslyn

Roslyn O. Silver (* 1946), American lawyer and federal judge
Rosslyn Williams (* 1943), Australian discus thrower and shot putter

Fictional people

a female character from William Shakespeare's comedy As You Like It
a parrot named 'Rosalinda', played by the parrot Douglas in the 1970 film Pippi in Taka-Tuka Land

Others

Geography: Rosalind , Roslin, Ros [s] lyn
Astronomy: Rosalind , Uranus Moon (discovered 1986); (900) Rosalinde , asteroid;
Before There Was Rosalyn , American post-hardcore band

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c Alison Findlay: Women in Shakespeare: a dictionary (= Continuum Shakespeare dictionary series ). Continuum International Publishing Group, 2010, ISBN 978-0-8264-5889-6 , pp. 353 ( limited preview in Google Book search).

↑ ^a ^b ^c Rozalind ( Memento of the original from April 19, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2 archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , babynamer.com

^ Rosalind (As You Like It) in the English language Wikipedia

↑ Rosalinde . geneanet.org - with a distribution graphic generated automatically from sources

[Findlay_2010-1] Alison Findlay: Women in Shakespeare: a dictionary (= Continuum Shakespeare dictionary series ). Continuum International Publishing Group, 2010, ISBN 978-0-8264-5889-6 , pp. 353 ( limited preview in Google Book search).