Updated June 9, 2019

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Family name origins & meanings

  • Hungarian : ethnic name for a Russian, orosz, from Turkish urus, in turn derived from Russian Rusak ‘Russian’, which owes its origin to a Scandinavian term meaning ‘oarsman’, ‘rower’ (a reference to the fact that the Russian state was first established by Scandinavians who rowed their ships inland from the Baltic sea).