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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : metonymic occupational name for a distiller or herbalist, from Middle High German rōsenwazzer ‘rose water’.
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : ornamental adoption of modern German Rosenwasser ‘rose water’.

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