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The roth Surname

roth Name Meaning and History

  1. German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): nickname for a person with red hair, from Middle High German rot, German rot ‘red’. As a Jewish surname it is also at least partly ornamental: its frequency as a Jewish surname is disproportionate to the number of Jews who, one may reasonably assume, were red-headed during the period of surname adoption.
  2. German and English: topographic name for someone who lived on land that had been cleared, Old High German rod, Old English rod, roð.
  3. German: from a short form of any of the various Germanic personal names with the first element hrod ‘renown’. Compare Rode 1, Ross 3.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of roth Families in the US in 1920
Number of roth families
 902-1801
 301-901		 1-300
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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