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roos Name Meaning and History

  1. Dutch (also de Roos) and Swiss German: habitational name for someone living at a house distinguished by the sign of a rose.
  2. Dutch (also de Roos): metonymic occupational name for someone who grew roses, from roos ‘rose’.
  3. Dutch: from the female personal name Rosa (Latin rosa ‘rose’).
  4. Dutch: nickname from roos ‘erysipelas’, an infection which causes reddening of the skin and scalp, applied presumably to someone with a ruddy complexion.
  5. Swiss German: from a personal name formed with hrod ‘renown’.
  6. Swedish and Danish (of German origin): as 1.
  7. Swedish: variant of Ros.
  8. English and Scottish: variant of Ross 2.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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roos Family Facts

Distribution of roos Families in the US in 1920
Number of roos families
 64-126
 22-63		 1-21
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Compiled by Ancestry.com.au from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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