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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : variant of Rosson.
  • Norwegian : habitational name from any of several farmsteads named Rosten or Røsten, from rust ‘grove’, ‘ridge’.
  • Americanized form of one or more like-sounding Jewish surnames. Compare Rothstein.

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