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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Dutch or German : Americanized spelling of Rosch.
  • Slovenian : nickname from roš, a reduced form of rovaš ‘stick split lengthwise’, used to keep accounts (by scoring or making notches in the wood). Compare Ros 4.
  • Jewish : either a shortened form of some Ashkenazic surname, or from Hebrew rosh ‘head’.

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