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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : topographic name for someone who lived at a place where wild roses grew (see Rose 1), with the suffix -er denoting an inhabitant.
  • German (Röser) : habitational name from places called Rös, Roes, or Rösa in Bavaria, Rhineland, and Saxony, or a variant of Rosser.
  • Swiss German (Röser) : from a short form of a Germanic personal name based on hrōd ‘renown’.
  • English : unexplained.

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