Roth (surname)

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Roth
Family Name
Meaning "red", or "wood", or "reknown"
Related names Reitman, Roiter, Roitman, Roter, Rothe, Rotheman, Rother, Rothert, Rothman, Rothmann, Rothschild, Rothwell, Rottmann, Rothin
Wikipedia articles All pages beginning with "Roth"

Roth is an English, German or Jewish origin surname. There are five theories:

  1. ethnic name for an Anglo-Saxon, derived from rot (meaning "red" in pre-7th century), referencing red-haired people.
  2. topographical name, derived from rod (meaning "wood"), referencing a dweller in such a location.
  3. derivative from hroth (from the Proto-Germanic word for "fame"; related to hrod).
  4. locale name for 18th century Ashkenazi refugees to Germany.
  5. derivative from roe in the ancient Danish language to signify (of) a king.

The first historical record of Roth appears in both Colchester and Essex public records in 1346.[1]

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[edit] People with the surname Roth

People with the surname Roth include:

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  • Ed Roth (1932–2001), American artist and cartoonist
  • Eli Roth (born 1972), American film director, producer, writer and actor
  • Emery Roth (1871–1948), Hungarian-American architect
  • Eric Roth (born 1945), American screenwriter
  • Ernie Roth (1929–1983), American wrestling manager of heels
  • Esther Roth-Shahamorov (born 1952), Israeli track and field athlete
  • Eugen Roth (1895–1976), German lyricist and poet

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  • Heinrich Roth (1620–1668), German missionary
  • Henry Roth (1906–1995), American novelist and short story writer

[edit] M-W

  • Richard Roth (born 1955), American journalist
  • Roy Roth (1927-2009), born Swansea, Wales, UK, Magician and inventor of Magic
  • Sanford H. Roth (1906―1962), American photographer
  • Sid Roth (born ?), messianic Jewish host of a daily radio show
  • Stephan Ludwig Roth (1796―1849), Transylvanian Saxon intellectual, pedagogue and Lutheran pastor
  • Tim Roth (born 1961), English film actor and director

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[edit] References

  1. ^ "Surname: Roth". surnamedb.com. http://www.surnamedb.com/surname.aspx?name=Roth. Retrieved 26 February 2008.