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Type Surname (from nickname)
Usage German, Jewish
Other Forms FormsRoth, Rothe, Rother, Rothert, Roiter, Roter, Rotheman, Rothman, Rothmann, Rottmann, Roitman, Reitman

Meaning & History

German (Rothmann) and Jewish (Ashkenazic): nickname for a person with red hair, from an elaborated form of Roth 1.

German: topographic name for someone who lived on land that had been cleared, from an elaborated form of Roth 2.

German (in Saxony and Silesia): occupational name for a counselor or nickname for a man respected for his opinions and advice, from a dialect variant of Middle High German rat ‘counsel’ + man ‘man’.
Added 6/23/2017 by TanorFaux