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Updated June 9, 2019

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.

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