Names

Means “rosary” in Portuguese. This name was often given to people born on the day of the festival of Our Lady of the Rosary.

Means “rose bushes” in Spanish.

Italian and Catalan form of Rose 1.

Means “rose field” from Dutch roos “rose” and veld “field”. This was the surname of American presidents Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) and Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945).

From Dutch roos meaning “rose”.

Means “red field”, from Dutch rood “red” and akker “field”.

From Italian places named Ronchi, derived from ronco meaning “cleared land, terraced land”. It is most common in northern and central Italy.

From the names of places like Ronco or Ronchi, quite common in northern Italy, derived from ronco meaning “cleared land, terraced land”. It was the surname of Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli (1881-1963), the pope John XXIII.

Variant of Van Rompa.

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