Rose

Rose is an English name derived from the Latin rosa, itself borrowed from Greek, referring to the flowering shrub long associated with beauty, love, and the divine. The name was used in medieval Europe both as a straightforward flower name and as a short form of Germanic compound names beginning with the element hrod, meaning fame, such as Rosamund and Rosalind. Saint Rose of Lima, the sixteenth-century Peruvian mystic, helped cement its popularity in Catholic traditions. Cognates and related forms include Rosa, Rosie, Rosalia, Rosamund, and Rhosyn in Welsh.