Nordic Names

Nordic Names

Ros

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Female Female Name

Usage

Sweden Swedish
Norway Norwegian
Finland Finnish

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Origin and Meaning

1) Old Norse rós = 'rose' from Latin rosa = 'rose' (see ROS) [1] [2] [3]

Rose
Rose
Image by Eva Kröcher,[4]
licensed under Creative Commons

2) Germanic *hróþi = 'fame, honour' (see HROD) [2]

3) Middle High German ros = 'horse' (see HROSS) [5]

Horse
Horse

4) Short form of Eufrosina

5) Maybe related to the name element RAUÐ [5]

Related Names

Lûsa ♀
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Roosa ♀
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Roossa ♀
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 Finish
Ros ♀
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Rós ♀
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Rosa ♀
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Rósa ♀
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 Faroese Icelandic
Rose ♀
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Rosea ♀
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Rosi ♀
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Rósi ♂
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Rosie ♀
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Rosy ♀
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Rósý ♀
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Roz ♀
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Roza ♀
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Rûsa ♀
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Ruusa ♀
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Ruussa ♀
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Ruusu ♀
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Ruvsá ♀
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 Sami

See also Rosalia, Rosannguaq, Rosel, Rosette, Rosilda, Rosina, Rósingur, Rosita

For male forms see Rosenius

Combinations

For combinations see ROS and HROSS and HROD (name elements)

Grammar

Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Ros
Genitive: Rosin
Partitive: Rosia
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Ros
Genitive: Ros'
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Ros
Genitive: Ros' / Ros

Statistics

Name Count per Country (What's this?)

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Country
Commonness
Commonness
Total Female ♀ Male ♂
as
main
name#		also
middle
name&		as
main
name#		also
middle
name&		as
main
name#		also
middle
name&
Sweden Sweden[6]
52 176 52 167 0 9
Finland Finland[7]
n.a.
 7
n.a.
 7 0 0
Denmark Denmark[8]
2
n.a.
 2
n.a.
 0
n.a.
Iceland Iceland[9]
0 2
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[10]
8
n.a.
 8
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[11]
0 0
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
  #: count of main first name only
  &: count of both main and additional first names
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published
for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country.

 

No recent statistics trend found in databases for Ros.


References

  1. ↑ Hermann Pálsson: Nafnabókin (1991)
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  3. ↑ Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  4. ↑ Wikimedia Commons: Image by Eva Kröcher, source & license
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Dr. Ernst Förstemann: Altdeutsches namenbuch (1856)
  6. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  7. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  8. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  9. ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  10. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  11. ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
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