Family name origins & meanings
- German (Rothmann) and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : nickname for a person with red hair, from an elaborated form of Roth 1.
- German : topographic name for someone who lived on land that had been cleared, from an elaborated form of Roth 2.
- German (in Saxony and Silesia) : occupational name for a counselor or nickname for a man respected for his opinions and advice, from a dialect variant of Middle High German rāt ‘counsel’ + man ‘man’.