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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Dutch (de Roos) : from roos ‘rose’ with the addition of the definite article de, probably a habitational name for someone living at a house distinguished by the sign of a rose, or possibly a nickname for a man with a rosy complexion.

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