The name Rosamund (also spelled Rosamond and Rosamunde) is a girls' name and can also be a family name (surname). Originally it combined the Germanic elements hros, meaning horse, and mund, meaning "protection". Later, it was influenced by the Latin phrases rosa munda, meaning "pure rose", and rosa mundi, meaning "rose of the world". "Rosamonda" is the Italian, "Rosamunde" is the German and "Rosemonde" the French form of the name.
People named Rosamund thereof include:
Rosamund (wife of Alboin) (fl. sixth century), second wife of Alboin, King of the Germanic LombardsRosamund Bartlett, American writer, scholar, translator and lecturer specializing in Russian literatureRosamund Clifford (before 1150–c. 1176), medieval beauty and longtime mistress of King Henry IIRosamund Greenwood (1907–1997), British actressRosamund John (1913–1998), English actressRosamund Kwan (born 1962), Chinese actressRosamund Lupton (born 1964), British authorRosamund Pike (born 1979), English actressRosamund Hanson (born 1989), English actressRosamund Stanhope (1919–2005), British poet and teacherRosamund Marriott Watson (1860–1911), English poet and critic who wrote under the pseudonym of Graham R. Tomson