Roze
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ʁoz/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Roze is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Uganda than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Middle Low German rōse, or from Middle Dutch rōse (compare German Rose), themselves borrowings from Latin rosa.
- FRFrance≈1 in 21K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 2.2M
- UGUganda≈1 in 1.1K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Uganda (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 229 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈38,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Uganda, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
- Middle Low Germanrōse(measured from records)
- Middle Dutchrōsecompare German Rose(measured from records)
- Latinrosa(measured from records)
- AncientGreek(measured from records)
- OldPersian(measured from records)
Borrowed from Middle Low German rōse, or from Middle Dutch rōse (compare German Rose), themselves borrowings from Latin rosa. The word was also apparently borrowed into Latin (via Ancient Greek) from Old Persian. In Latvian texts this word is first mentioned in the 16th century, apparently as a general word for “(garden) flower” or “(bright-colored) flower” — as a synonym of puķe (“flower”), a sense still found in folk songs. The meaning was restricted to “rose” only in the 17th century. The sense “erysipelas” was first attested in the 18th century.
Sources 1
Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Roze counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Roze is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latvian, rose (decorative shrub, gen. Rosa, with beautiful flowers and thorny stems)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Japanese, Rōmaji transcription of ロゼ
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Dutch, pink, rosy
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Romanian, pink
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Romanian, ROZÉ adj. invar. (Despre vinuri, șampanie etc.) Care are culoarea roz, de culoare roz.
as a wordDEX online (dexonline.ro) - DEX '96 / DEX '98 definitions with etymology
In Latvian, šīs dzimtas un apakšdzimtas ģints ("Rosa"), dekoratīvs krūmveida augs ar lieliem, parasti smaržīgiem, dažādas krāsas divdzimumu ziediem (pa vienam vai vairogveida ziedkopās) un ar ērkšķainu stumbru, ~200 sugu, Latvijā savvaļā konstatētas 17 sugu, no tām 6 ir dārzbēgļi
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Nicolas Rozeb. 1675FRFrench aristocrat know for his heroic actions during the 1720 plague epidemic in Marseille
- Nicolas Rozeb. 1745FRFrench composer (1745-1819)
- Pierre-Gustave Rozeb. 1812FRFrench admiral (1812-1883)
- Marie Rozeb. 1846FRFrench operatic soprano
- Albert Rozeb. 1861FRFrench sculptor (1861–1952)
- Raymond Rôzeb. 1875GBEnglish conductor and composer (1875-1920)
- Janis Rozeb. 1926USherpetologist and Professor of Biology Emeritus of City College and Graduate School of the City University of New York
- Pascale Rozeb. 1954FRFrench writer
- Mārtiņš Rozeb. 1964LVMember of the Saeima, Latvia's parliament (1964-2012)
- Sophie RozeFRfilmmaker
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 47 sources across 23 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 157 | #42,763 |
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register) | — | 85 | — |
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup) | — | 84 | #1,279 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 10 | #42,763 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2024 | 5 | — |
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Roze mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Middle Low German rōse, or from Middle Dutch rōse (compare German Rose), themselves borrowings from Latin rosa. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Roze?
- A machine transcription gives /ʁoz/ (IPA) for French.
- In which country does Roze have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 38 thousand people named Roze in Uganda, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled roze.
- How common is the name Roze?
- In the United States, the national register counted 152 people named Roze in 2010, about 1 in 2.2 million residents.
- How common is Roze compared with other names?
- In Uganda, Roze is the 329th most common surname of 6,307 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Roze?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/rozeThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Roze” — the 329th most common surname in Uganda. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.