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roos Name Meaning and History
- Dutch (also de Roos) and Swiss German: habitational name for someone living at a house distinguished by the sign of a rose.
- Dutch (also de Roos): metonymic occupational name for someone who grew roses, from roos ‘rose’.
- Dutch: from the female personal name Rosa (Latin rosa ‘rose’).
- Dutch: nickname from roos ‘erysipelas’, an infection which causes reddening of the skin and scalp, applied presumably to someone with a ruddy complexion.
- Swiss German: from a personal name formed with hrod ‘renown’.
- Swedish and Danish (of German origin): as 1.
- Swedish: variant of Ros.
- English and Scottish: variant of Ross 2.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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