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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Jewish : Americanized form of a like-sounding Ashkenazic surname; possibly Rusin, or a habitational name (Rosseyn(y), Rossiensky) derived from a place called Rossieny, now Raseiniai in Lithuania.

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