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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from Rostherne in Cheshire, recorded in Domesday Book as Rodestorne, from the Old Scandinavian personal name Rauthr + Old English thorn or thyrne ‘thorn tree’.
  • Italian : from an augmentative of Rosso.

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