Meaning: Roth is a surname turned given name, from Middle High German rot meaning red, often describing red hair or a red house sign; it is common as a German and Ashkenazi Jewish family name and reads as a crisp, single-syllable first name.Low
In 30 seconds: Roth is a surname meaning red, from Middle High German rot, used now and then as a boy's first name. It reached a small high for United States boys around nineteen-eighty-five (said RAWTH) and stayed rare.
MeaningRoth is a surname turned given name, from Middle High German rot meaning red, often describing red hair or a red house sign; it is common as a German and Ashkenazi Jewish family name and reads as a crisp, single-syllable first name.
Roth steps over from the surname column. It appears as a given name in United States records from the mid nineteen-fifties and touched its modest high near nineteen-eighty-five.
It was never common, given to only a couple dozen boys a year at most, drifting on into the twenty-tens. A boy named Roth at that peak would be in his early forties today. The name reads as a spare, surname-style pick rather than a traditional first name.
Did you know? As a German and Jewish surname Roth once marked a red-haired ancestor or a house painted red; borrowed as a first name, it fits the modern taste for short, surname-style boys' names.
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References - Roth β German and Jewish surname, red, from Middle High German rot; used as given name
