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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) : variant of Rosman.
  • Slovenian (also Rožman) : occupational name for a carter or a horse breeder or dealer, from Middle High German ros ‘horse’ + man ‘man’. Compare German Rossmann.
  • Slovenian : from a medieval respelled form of the personal name Erazem, Latin Erasmus. See Rasmus.

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