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Surname Etymology and Meaning of ROOS

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Name meanings and etymologies are often disputed. The information here is compiled from freely available sources, and no claims whatsoever are made for accuracy, either historical or etymological.

1. Dutch (also de Roos) and Swiss German: habitational name for someone living at a house distinguished by the sign of a rose.
2. Dutch (also de Roos): metonymic occupational name for someone who grew roses, from roos ‘rose’.
3. Dutch: from the female personal name Rosa (Latin rosa ‘rose’).
4. Dutch: nickname from roos ‘erysipelas’, an infection which causes reddening of the skin and scalp, applied presumably to someone with a ruddy complexion.
5. Swiss German: from a personal name formed with hrod ‘renown’.
6. Swedish and Danish (of German origin): as 1.
7. Swedish: variant of Ros.
8. English and Scottish: variant of Ross 2.

Source: Dictionary of American Family Names (2003)