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