Rosalie

Rosalie blooms from the Old French diminutive of Rosa, a name scented with twelfth-century troubadour song and the medieval Sicilian saint who is said to have calmed a plague with her prayers. The French gave it its soft landing, that unhurried third syllable curling like a petal. It crossed the Atlantic with immigrant grandmothers, slept through the mid-century, and woke up again around 2010, now perched near rank 177. Rosalie feels handwritten, a name from a letter rather than a screen. Vintage without being fussy, romantic without apology, with the clean nickname Rose already built in.