Family name origins & meanings
- Jewish (Ashkenazic) : from South German Ross ‘horse’, hence an occupational name for a breeder or keeper of horses or perhaps a nickname for someone thought to resemble a horse or a habitational name for someone who lived at a house distinguished by the sign of a horse.
- Jewish (Ashkenazic) : variant of Rose 3 with the addition of man ‘man’.
- German and Slovenian : variant spelling of German Rossmann or its Slovenian form Rozman.