COUCH CornishFrom Cornish
cough "red", indicating the original bearer had red hair.
FLANAGAN IrishFrom Irish
Ó Flannagáin meaning
"descendant of Flannagán".
Flannagán is a given name meaning "red". From County Roscommon in Ireland, it has many other spellings.
FOX EnglishFrom the name of the animal. It was originally a nickname for a person with red hair or a crafty person.
FUCHS GermanFrom Old High German
fuhs meaning
"fox". It was originally a nickname for a person with red hair.
HIMURA JapaneseFrom Japanese
緋 (hi) meaning "scarlet, dark red" and
村 (mura) meaning "town, village".
LEROUX FrenchMeans
"the red", from Old French
ros "red". This was a nickname for a person with red hair.
RADCLIFF EnglishFrom various place names in England that mean "red cliff" in Old English.
READ (1) EnglishMeans
"red" from Middle English
read, probably denoting a person with red hair or complexion.
ROIG CatalanMeans
"red" in Catalan, from Latin
rubeus, originally a nickname for a person with red hair or a red complexion.
ROJO SpanishMeans
"red" in Spanish, referring to the colour of the hair or complexion.
ROSE (1) English, French, German, JewishMeans
"rose" from Middle English, Old French and Middle High German
rose, all from Latin
rosa. All denote a person of a rosy complexion or a person who lived in an area abundant with roses. As a Jewish surname it is ornamental, from Yiddish
רויז (roiz).
ROSSI ItalianDerived from a nickname for a red-haired person, from Italian
rosso, Latin
russus meaning "red". This is the most common surname in Italy.
ROTH German, JewishFrom Middle High German
rot meaning
"red". It was originally a nickname for a person with red hair.
ROTHENBERG German, JewishFrom Middle High German
rot meaning "red" and
berg meaning "mountain". As a Jewish name it may be ornamental.
ROTHSCHILD JewishFrom Middle High German
rot "red" and
schilt "shield", or Yiddish
רויט (roit) and
שילד (shild). The famous Rothschild family of bankers took their name from a house with a red shield on it.
ROUX FrenchDerived from Old French
ros meaning
"red", from Latin
russus, a nickname for a red-haired person.
RUBIO SpanishNickname for a person with red hair, from Latin
rubeus "red".
RUSSELL EnglishFrom a Norman French nickname that meant
"little red one", perhaps originally describing a person with red hair.
SCARLETT EnglishDenoted a person who sold or made clothes made of scarlet, a kind of cloth, possibly derived from Persian
سقرلاط (saghrelat).
VÖRÖS HungarianMeans
"red" in Hungarian, referring to a person with red hair or face.
VOSS GermanFrom Middle Low German
vos meaning
"fox". It was originally a nickname for a clever person or a person with red hair.
WIŚNIEWSKI PolishFrom the name of various Polish towns named Wiśniewo, derived from Polish
wiśnia meaning "sour cherry".
ZHU ChineseFrom Chinese
朱 (zhū) meaning
"vermilion red, cinnabar" and also referring to the ancient state of Zhu, which existed in what is now Shandong province. This was the surname of the emperors of the Ming dynasty.