Roos Family History
- Roos Name Meaning
- Dutch (also de Roos) and Swiss German: habitational name for someone living at a house distinguished by the sign of a rose. Dutch (also de Roos): metonymic occupational name for someone who grew roses, from roos ‘rose’. Dutch: from the female personal name Rosa (Latin rosa ‘rose’). Dutch: nickname from roos ‘erysipelas’, an infection which causes reddening of the skin and scalp, applied presumably to someone with a ruddy complexion. Swiss German: from a personal name formed with hrod ‘renown’. Swedish and Danish (of German origin): as 1. Swedish: variant of Ros. English and Scottish: variant of Ross 2.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 605,106 Historical Documents with Roos on Ancestry
- 278,437 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 37,280 Census and Voter Lists
- 10,118 Military Records
- 20,666 Immigration Records
- 258,605 Member Trees
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Number of Roos families
 29 - 55  10 - 28 |
 1 - 9  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Roos families
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5 - 8 2 - 4 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Roos census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from the New York Passenger Lists
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from 1881 UK Census Data
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