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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : habitational name from any of numerous places so named, or from a house or an area of a town so named. Rosengarten also was used as a term for a red-light district.
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : ornamental name from German Rosengarten ‘garden of roses’.

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