Family name origins & meanings
- Croatian (Rožić) and Slovenian (Rožič) :
- patronymic from Rože or Rožo, pet forms of the personal name Erazmo (Croatian), Erazem (Slovenian), Latin Erasmus. See Rasmus.
- nickname or topographic name from rožič, a diminutive of rog ‘horn’, as a topographic name possibly denoting someone who lived on a horn-shaped spur or ridge of a hill, or on a pointed piece of land.