Rosa Family History
- Rosa Name Meaning
- Italian and Catalan: from rosa ‘rose’ (Latin rosa), applied in part as a topographic name for someone who lived where wild roses grew, in part as a habitational name for someone who lived at a house distinguished by the sign of a rose, and in part as a nickname for someone with a pink, rosy complexion. Portuguese and Spanish: in most cases a short form of a name such as (de la) Rosa (Spanish) or (da) Rosa (Portuguese), or occasionally from the female personal name Rosa. Polish and Czech: from the vocabulary word rosa ‘dew’, ‘juice’, ‘sap’, applied as a nickname.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 1,237,838 Historical Documents with Rosa on Ancestry
- 852,738 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 165,558 Census and Voter Lists
- 18,953 Military Records
- 79,555 Immigration Records
- 121,034 Member Trees
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Number of Rosa families
 25 - 47  9 - 24 |
 1 - 8  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Rosa families
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13 - 24 5 - 12 |
1 - 4 |
from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Rosa census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from 1881 CA Census Data
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