Roth Family History
Roth Name Meaning
German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): nickname for a person with red
hair, from Middle High German rot, German rot
‘red’. As a Jewish surname it is also at least partly ornamental: its
frequency as a Jewish surname is disproportionate to the number of
Jews who, one may reasonably assume, were red-headed during the period
of surname adoption.German and English: topographic name
for someone who lived on land that had been cleared, Old High German
rod, Old English rod, roð.German:
from a short form of any of the various Germanic personal names with
the first element hrod ‘renown’. Compare Rode 1,
Ross 3.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Roth
Name Distribution of Roth Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Roth families
 41 - 79  14 - 40 |
 1 - 13  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Roth families
|
3 - 4 2 - 2 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Roth Family Origin
Roth Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Roth Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
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