Rosetta is the birth name of actress Piper Laurie.
-- Anonymous User 12/21/2005
Rosetta (or Rashîd) is the name of a town in Egypt, on the Mediterranean coast.
Rosetta is also the name of a stone tablet found in 1799 near the town of Rashîd, containing the same text in Egyptian heirogluphics, Egyptian script, and Greek, making it a keystone in deciphering hieroglyphics.
This name has been used from the 1880's to the 1960's. Its most popular year was the 1930's which ranked 291.
-- Anonymous User 9/25/2006
Actually it's been in use in the UK for longer than that. It's a family name in my family, and the first one was born in 1806. I imagine it became popular after the Rosetta Stone came to England in 1802.
-- Anonymous User 10/22/2008
Rosetta is an eligible bachelorette in the Wii video game Rune Factory Frontier. She is the general store keeper's daughter.
I quite like this name, and I don't mind that it has the association with the Egyptian stone. I probably quite like it because of the association with Piper Laurie, whose real birth name is Rosetta Jacobs. :-)