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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Croatian (Rožić) and Slovenian (Rožič) :
  • patronymic from Rože or Rožo, pet forms of the personal name Erazmo (Croatian), Erazem (Slovenian), Latin Erasmus. See Rasmus.
  • nickname or topographic name from rožič, a diminutive of rog ‘horn’, as a topographic name possibly denoting someone who lived on a horn-shaped spur or ridge of a hill, or on a pointed piece of land.

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