Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Is the last name Rose a French or German name?

Well Germans and French (a well as ppl from other nationalities) Anglicanized their names so often it's hard to tell. Rose I believe is English.

Is the last name Rose a French or German name?
Rose Name Meaning and History





English, Scottish, French, and German: from the name of the flower, Middle English, Old French, Middle High German rose (Latin rosa), in various applications. In part it is a topographic name for someone who lived at a place where wild roses grew, or a habitational name for someone living at a house bearing the sign of the rose. It is also found, especially in Europe, as a nickname for a man with a 鈥榬osy鈥?complexion. As an American surname, this name has absorbed cognates and similar-sounding names from other European languages.





English: variant of Royce.





Jewish (Ashkenazic): ornamental name from the word for the flower (German Rose, Yiddish royz), or a metronymic name from the Yiddish female personal name Royze, derived from the word for the flower.





Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4





It could have been shortened from "Rosecranz", or half a dozen others, too.
Reply:the name Rose is English, Greek, Scottish, and Irish (take your pick)

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