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Rose

in Rhode Island

There are 628 people with the last name "Rose" in Rhode Island.

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Ranking in Rhode Island

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Rose 103
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  1. is 99th most common Walker
  2. is 100th most common Morin
  3. is 101st most common Wood
  4. is 102nd most common Burns
  5. is 103rd most common Rose
  6. is 104th most common Sherman
  7. is 105th most common Morris
  8. is 106th most common Lima
  9. is 107th most common Lambert

Most Common First Names for Rose

William, John, David, Robert, Thomas, Patricia, Richard, Jennifer, Lisa, Donna

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Meaning & History

1. 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 ‘rosy’ complexion. As an American surname, this name has absorbed cognates and similarsounding names from other European languages.

2. English: variant of Royce.

3. 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.

FOREBEARS French families bearing the name Rose are descended from a native of Paris, documented in Quebec City in 1666.

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