Rozic Family History
Rozic Surname Meaning
Slovenian (Rožič) and Croatian (Rožić): patronymic from Rože (Croatian also Rožo), an old vernacular short form of the personal names Slovenian Erazem (see Rose) and Croatian Erazmo, local forms of Latin Erasmus.
Slovenian (Rožič) and Croatian (Rožić): nickname or topographic name from a diminutive of rog ‘horn’, as a topographic name possibly denoting someone who lived on a horn-shaped spur or ridge of a hill or on a pointed piece of land.
Slovenian (Rožič) and Croatian (Rožić): metronymic from Roža, a female personal name derived from Slovenian and dialectal Croatian roža ‘rose flower’. Compare Ruzic.
Croatian (Rozić): metronymic from a short form of the female personal name Rozalija (see Rosalia).
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
