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ros Name Meaning and History

  1. Catalan: nickname for someone with blond hair or a fair complexion, from Latin russus.
  2. Swedish: ornamental name from ros ‘rose’.
  3. Slovenian: nickname from the dialect adjective ros ‘russet’, hence denoting a person with russet-colored hair. Compare Rus 2.
  4. Slovenian (Roš): probably also a nickname from roš, a reduced form of rovaš ‘stick split lengthwise’, which was used to keep accounts (by scoring or making notches in the wood).
  5. Cambodian or other Southeast Asian: unexplained.

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

Distribution of ros Families in the US in 1920
Number of ros families
 12-22
 5-11		 1-4
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Compiled by Ancestry.com.au from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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I'm a Ros from Barcelona hectoros 5
Ros en España Carme Ros 6
Im a Roz living in the Philippines goodnight1984 0
Ros Famiglia in Napoli AmyLo 0
George A Ros M.D. obituary dactackm 0
ROSE'S OF JACKSONVILLE & PERRY FL gosborne27 0
Mother: Rosalie Rose gosborne27 0
finding family ChristineRos52 0
Charlote Ros (Ross) Sussex County, New Jersey SSmith7578 0
Looking for Fulvio, María and Enzo Ros from San Vito al Tagliamento, Urdine, Italy Lidia Ros 10
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