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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : ornamental name from German Rosen ‘roses’.
  • German : from an inflected form of the personal name Rose.
  • German : habitational name from any of several places, in Westphalia, Silesia, and East Prussia, named Rosen, from Rose ‘rose’.
  • Swedish (Rosén) : see Roseen.

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