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rough Name Meaning and History

Scottish: from Older Scots rughe, roghe ‘rough’, a nickname for someone with a rough unkempt appearance or a topographic name for someone who lived by rough, uncultivated land.

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

Distribution of rough Families in the US in 1920
Number of rough families
 26-50
 9-25		 1-8
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Compiled by Ancestry.com.au from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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