Rosin

See also: rosin

English

Etymology

• As a German surname, from the noun Rosine (“raisin”). Also Germanized/Americanized from Slavic forms of this word such as Slovene rozina, Lower Sorbian rozyna, themselves borrowed from the German.
• As an Italian surname, variant of Rosino, pet form of Roso, itself from both Rosa and Rosso.
• As a French surname, pet form or variant of Rose.
• As a Serbo-Croatian surname (Rošin), from a variant of Rosko (converged from several meanings, including rod (“relative”)) or Rosic (related to Rosalia, or from rosa (“dew”)).
• As a Jewish surname, variant of the Yiddish form of Rose (compare רויז (royz)).
• Also as a Jewish surname, Russified from Rosen.

Proper noun

Rosin (plural Rosins)

1. A surname.

Derived terms

• Marechal-Rosin test

 

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Rosin is the 14667^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 2028 individuals. Rosin is most common among White (93.69%) individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Rosin”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.

Anagrams

• Niros, Orins, irons, siron, Irons, noris, Sinor, noirs, ornis, RINOs, Rinos, roins, inros, Rison