Roza Family Name and Heraldry

Anyone researching Roza should also look under Rosa. Name scholars give the meaning as “Rose”. Spelled with “z” instead of “s”, Roza shows how the same name was heard and written differently. Census takers and immigration officers often wrote what they heard.

The Census Bureau's 2010 surname file lists Roza with 703 bearers, at rank 32,676. That puts it inside the top 50,000 US surnames. In the Spanish register, Roza appears 756 times as a first surname and 782 times as a second one.

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