Rosevear
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Rosevear
Frequency: (203)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
Cornish: habitational name from either of two places called Roseveare. The one in St. Austell is named from Cornish ros ‘moor’ + mur ‘great’, ‘large’; the other, in St. Mawgan in Meneage, is from res ‘ford’ + mur. In both cases, the initial m of the adjective has been lenited to v-.
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