Family name origins & meanings
- English : from the medieval female personal name Rosemunde, a Norman name, actually a compound of the Germanic elements hros ‘horse’ + mund ‘protection’, but associated from an early date in the popular mind with the Latin phrase rosa munda ‘pure rose’, an epithet of the Virgin Mary.
- Jewish (Ashkenazic) : ornamental name or name adopted by the husband of a woman bearing the Yiddish personal name Royze (see Rose 3).
- Americanized spelling of German Rosemann.