Baby name
FADING
🇧🇷 🇵🇹 Rosilda
/hoh · ZIL · dah/
Meaning
“Rose battle-maiden”
Brazilian Portuguese and Iberian feminine name, a compound of Rosa and the Germanic element hild (battle), meaning rose battle-maiden; exists in both Portugal and Brazil.
Nicknames
rosa
Vibe
warm
How it ages.
Feels antique and rarely revived; the -ilda ending signals an earlier era.
The cultural moment.
Common in Brazil and Portugal from the 1940s through the 1970s; very rare in new births since.