Popularity of the last name by country
New Zealand
- Auckland (2,697)
- Otago (2,168)
- Canterbury (1,979)
- Wellington (1,664)
- Manawatu Wanganui (577)
- Nelson (526)
- West Coast (350)
- Marlborough (311)
- Waikato (174)
- Taranaki (168)
- Southland (116)
- Bay of Plenty (92)
- Gisborne (86)
- Northland (70)
- Tasman (43)
- Hawke's Bay (1)
All countries
- France (403,863)
- United Kingdom (278,007)
- United States (175,710)
- Germany (35,195)
- Canada (23,744)
- Australia (17,135)
- Belgium (17,019)
- New Zealand (11,280)
- Netherlands (9,926)
- Denmark (8,779)
- Martinique (6,605)
- Ireland (4,174)
- Latvia (4,013)
- Unknown country (3,419)
- Switzerland (3,198)
- Sweden (3,185)
- Norway (2,192)
- Italy (1,676)
- Austria (1,543)
- Algeria (1,182)
- Spain (979)
- Czech republic (963)
- Guadeloupe (948)
- India (942)
- Réunion (928)
- Poland (738)
- Russian Federation (596)
- Brazil (497)
- Jamaica (386)
- Estonia (361)
- Hungary (341)
- Indonesia (324)
- French Guiana (315)
- Portugal (304)
- Mexico (267)
- Mauritius (246)
- Romania (237)
- Finland (200)
- South Africa (198)
- Colombia (184)
Origine of last name
ROSE : 1: English Scottish French Walloon Danish and German: from the name of the flower Middle English Old French Middle High German rose (from 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 topographic or habitational name referring to a house bearing the sign of the rose. It is also found especially in Europe as a nickname for a man with a ‘rosy’ complexion (compare 4 below). In North America the English form of the surname has absorbed cognates and similar-sounding names from other languages e.g. Hungarian Rózsa (see <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Rozsa">Rozsa</a>) Slovak Róža and Czech <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Roza">Roza</a>. Compare 6 below and French <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Larose">Larose</a> 2.2: English: from the Middle English female personal name Rohese Roese later Rose Royse (ancient Germanic Hrodohaidis Rothaid composed of the elements hrōd ‘fame renown’ + haid(is) ‘kind sort’).3: English and Scottish: variant of <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Ross">Ross</a>.4: French and Walloon (Rosé): nickname for someone with a rosy complexion from rosé ‘pinkish rosy’.5: French: habitational name from (La) Rose the name of several places in various parts of France. Compare <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Larose">Larose</a> 3.6: French and Walloon: from the female personal name Rose from the name of the flower (see 1 above). This surname is also found in the West Indies and Mauritius.7: Italian (Calabria): habitational name from Rose the name of a place in Calabria.8: In some cases also an Americanized or Italianized form of Slovenian Rože: from a short form of any old vernacular form of the personal name Erazem Latin <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Erasmus">Erasmus</a> in which the syllable raz was altered to rož (see <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Rozman">Rozman</a>).9: Jewish (Ashkenazic): from the Yiddish female personal name Royze derived from the Yiddish word royz ‘flower’ or an artificial name from the same word.
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