Rosemarie is a German and English compound of Rose and Marie, pairing the "rose" with Mary, whose Hebrew name is usually explained as "beloved" or "bitter"; it is also the shape of the herb name rosemary, "dew of the sea". The name was fashionable in the 1940s and 1950s, when the singer Rosemary Clooney was a household name. Rosemarie stood at number 1368 in the United States in 2000 and ranks number 1767 among girls' names in 2025.