Roos (surname)

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Roos is a surname with multiple origins. In Dutch, Low German, Swiss German and Estonian “Roos” means “Rose” and the surname is often of toponymic origin (e.g. someone lived in a house named “the rose”). [1] In 2007, 8600 people were named Roos and another 2880 “de Roos” in the Netherlands. [2] In the UK, Roos may be of patronymic origin (“Andrews”) or indicating red hair (Old English “Rouse”). [3] The name is also relatively common in Sweden (5,902 people in 2010), Finland (1219 in 2012) [4] and Estonia (934 people in 2019). [5] People with the name "Roos" or "de Roos" include:

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References

  1. Roos Name Meaning at ancestry.com
  2. Roos at the Meertens Institute database of surnames in the Netherlands
  3. Roos at the HouseofNames.com
  4. Roos in Finland
  5. "Nimede statistika". www.stat.ee. Archived from the original on 2019-08-12.