Horse protection
Derived from the Germanic elements 'hros' (horse) and 'mund' (protection). In the medieval period, it was often associated with the Latin phrase 'rosa mundi', meaning 'rose of the world', though this is a folk etymology rather than its linguistic root.
Less common today
Rosamond isn't in the latest US Top 1000. It last peaked at #9,120 in 2019.
US births per 5-year period, 1990–present (SSA data).
Academy Award-nominated English actress
A central character in George Eliot's novel Middlemarch · Middlemarch
English novelist and short story writer
Pseudonym used by American writer Joyce Carol Oates
The beautiful heiress in Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre · Jane Eyre
