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Updated June 9, 2019

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’.

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