# Rosin (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/rosin/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | not recorded |
| Type | not recorded |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 2,028 |
| US rank (2010) | 14,667 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 152,241 people |
| Change since 2000 | +2.8% (1,973 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

* As a German surname, from the noun Rosine (“raisin”). Also Germanized/Americanized from Slavic forms of this word such as Slovene rozina, Lower Sorbian rozyna, themselves borrowed from the German. * As an Italian surname, variant of Rosino, pet form of Roso, itself from both Rosa and Rosso. * As a French surname, pet form or variant of Rose. * As a Serbo-Croatian surname (Rošin), from a variant of Rosko (converged from several meanings, including rod (“relative”)) or Rosic (related to Rosalia, or from rosa (“dew”)). * As a Jewish surname, variant of the Yiddish form of Rose (compare רויז (royz)). * Also as a Jewish surname, Russified from Rosen.

## Who carries it

Share of people named Rosin in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 94% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 0.5% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 2.1% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.9% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 1.4% |
| Two or more races | 1.3% |

## Similar surnames

Rosen, Rosson, Rosenow, Rusin, Rosenau, Rossini, Raskin, Rushin, Roshan, Regan, Reagan, Ragan.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.