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Frequency: (691)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
Swiss German: variant spelling of Rothen, recorded in 1832 as the surname of a Swiss Mennonite immigrant. It is probably topographic in origin, from a field or rocky slope so named due to the red color of the soil or rock.
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