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ROMERO : Derived from Roma, Spanish and Italian name of the city of Rome. It could have originally indicated a person who was from Rome or who took a pilgrimag...

ROMIJN : Derived from the Dutch given name Romein, which comes from Romanus (see ROMAN).

ROMIJNDERS : Variant of ROMIJN.

ROMIJNSEN : Variant of ROMIJN.

ROMILLY : Originally denoted a person who came from any of the various places in northern France called Romilly or Remilly, or from Romiley in England.

ROMPA : Variant of VAN ROMPA. Of all the known surnames that are derived from VAN ROMPAEY, Rompa is the commonest in the Netherlands; there are only a handful...

ROMÀ (1) : Derived from the given name Romanus (see ROMAN).

ROMÀ (2) : Catalan form of ROMA (2).

ROMÃO : Portuguese form of ROMANO (1) or ROMANO (2).

RONCALLI : Locative surname, from the names of places like Ronco or Ronchi, quite common in northern Italy. It was the surname of Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli (1881-...

RONCHI : Locative surname coming from a place called Ronco. It is common in northern and central Italy.

ROOIAKKER : Literally means "red field", from Dutch rood "red" and akker "field". The surname comes from the word rooiakker, which was a name for a field that had...

ROOIAKKERS : Variant of ROOIAKKER.

ROOIJAKKER : Variant of ROOIAKKER.

ROOIJAKKERS : Variant of ROOIAKKER.

ROOSA : From the Dutch word roos meaning "rose".

ROOSEVELT : Means "rose field" from Dutch roos "rose" and veld "field". This was the surname of American presidents Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) and Franklin D....

ROSA : Means "rose" from Latin rosa, perhaps denoting a person who lived where roses grew or had a rosy complexion.

ROSALES : Means "bed of roses" in Spanish.

ROSARIO : Means "rosary" from Portuguese rosario. This name was often given to people born on the day of the festival of Our Lady of the Rosary.

ROSCOE : From a place name meaning "doe wood" in Old Norse.

ROSE (1) : Means "rose" from the Middle English, Old French and Middle High German rose. All denote a person of a rosy complexion or a person who lived in an are...

ROSE (2) : Derived from the given name ROSE.

ROSENBERG : Means "rose mountain" in German.

ROSENBERGER : Variant of ROSENBERG.

ROSENFELD : Means "field of roses" in German.

ROSS : From various place names (such as the region of Ross in northern Scotland) which are derived from Scottish Gaelic ros meaning "promontory, headland".

ROSSI : Derived from a nickname for a red-haired person, from Italian rosso, Latin russus.

ROSSINI : Diminutive form of ROSSI. A famous bearer was the Italian composer Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868).

ROSTAMI : Derived from the Persian name Rostam, a variant of RUSTAM. Rostam was a warrior hero in Persian legend.