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Root Name Meaning
English: nickname for a cheerful person, from Middle English
rote ‘glad’ (Old English rot).English: metonymic
occupational name for a player on the rote, an early medieval stringed
instrument (Middle English, Old French rote, of uncertain
origin but apparently ultimately akin to Welsh crwth).Dutch: topographic name for someone who lived by a retting place
(Dutch root, a derivative of ro(o)ten ‘to ret’, akin to
modern English rot), a place where flax is soaked in tubs of
water until the stems rot to release the linen fibers.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Root Families
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United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Root families
 269 - 536  90 - 268 |
 1 - 89  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Root families
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187 - 371 63 - 186 |
1 - 62 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Root Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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