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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German (Rösner) : habitational name for someone from a place called Rosenau or Rosna, or for someone who lived at a house distinguished by the sign of a rose, from Middle High German rōse ‘rose’.
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : variant of Rose 3.

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