The melrose Surname
melrose Name Meaning and History
Scottish: habitational name from a place near Galashiels in the
Scottish Borders, so named from British words that were ancestors of
Welsh moel ‘bare’, ‘barren’ + rhos ‘moor’, ‘heath’. The
Breton and Irish equivalents of the second element mean ‘promontory’,
and this may also have been the sense here.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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