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English, Scottish, French, Walloon, Danish, and German: from the name of the flower, Middle English, Old French, Middle High German rose (from Latin rosa), in various applications. In part, it is a topographic name for someone who lived at a place where wild roses grew, or a topographic or habitational name referring to a house bearing the sign of the rose. It is also found, especially in Europe, as a nickname for a man with a ‘rosy’ complexion (compare 4 below). In North America, the English form of the surname has absorbed cognates and similar-sounding names from other languages, e.g. Hungarian Rózsa (see Rozsa ), Slovak Róža and Czech Roza . Compare 6 below and French Larose 2.

English: from the Middle English female personal name Rohese, Roese, later Rose, Royse (ancient Germanic Hrodohaidis, Rothaid, composed of the elements hrōd ‘fame, renown’ + haid(is) ‘kind, sort’).

English and Scottish: variant of Ross .

French and Walloon (Rosé): nickname for someone with a rosy complexion, from rosé ‘pinkish, rosy’.

French: habitational name from (La) Rose, the name of several places in various parts of France. Compare Larose 3.

French and Walloon: from the female personal name Rose, from the name of the flower (see 1 above). This surname is also found in the West Indies and Mauritius.

Italian (Calabria): habitational name from Rose, the name of a place in Calabria.

In some cases also an Americanized or Italianized form of Slovenian Rože: from a short form of any old vernacular form of the personal name Erazem, Latin Erasmus , in which the syllable raz was altered to rož (see Rozman ).

Jewish (Ashkenazic): from the Yiddish female personal name Royze, derived from the Yiddish word royz ‘flower’, or an artificial name from the same word.

History: Noël Rose from Paris, France, married Marie de Monmainier in Quebec City, QC, in 1666.