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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : habitational name for someone who lived at a house distinguished by the sign of a rosebush, Middle High German rōsenboum.
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : ornamental adoption of modern German Rosenbaum ‘rose bush’.

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