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The Rozas surname

In the 2010 U.S. Census, 674 people carried this name — #33,772 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 434,800 people counted. That is up 11% from 608 in 2000.

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What the name means

The meaning of the Rozas surname

Habitational surname, borrowed from Spanish Rozas, from roza (“swidden”).

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Rozas» (English), by Wiktionary contributors · licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) · excerpt, lightly adapted.

In Argentina’s national register

At least 1,850 people named Rozas live in Argentina.

RENAPER only publishes a name in a province when more than ten people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Buenos Aires Province.

Where it concentrates, on the map

Where they live today

Buenos Aires Province 691
City of Buenos Aires 165
Mendoza 162
Santa Fe 159
Neuquén 154
Río Negro 138
Santa Cruz 63
Salta 55

RENAPER (National Registry of Persons, Argentina), surnames of residents by province, December 2021 — CC BY 4.0.

In France’s civil register

France’s register of deaths holds 64 people named Rozas.

10 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 12 départements, most often Guadeloupe.

Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.

Where they were born

Born outside France 10
Guadeloupe 33
Calvados 4
Hérault 4
Paris 4
Indre-et-Loire 2
Val-d’Oise 1
Seine-Saint-Denis 1
Hauts-de-Seine 1

Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.

In Switzerland’s population statistics

45 people named Rozas live in Switzerland.

They live in 3 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Fribourg.

Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.

Where they live today

Fribourg 20
Zurich 14
Vaud 11

Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.

Who carried it

People named Rozas,
with a public archive behind them.

  • Francisco Lorenzo Rozas Fernandez d. 1973
  • Alonso de Rozas 1700–1681 · sculptor
  • Ángel Rozas Serrano 1927–2010 · politician
  • José Enrique Rozas Guijarro 1945–2014 · lawyer
  • Ángel Rozas 1950– · lawyer
  • Wilbert Rozas Beltrán 1953– · politician

Wikidata (CC0) · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.

When the index is not enough

This page says where Rozas is.
A volume says what happened to it.

Every page in the index is free and stays free. The Heritage Volume is the long form: the full paper trail, the arms, the crossing — bound, and yours.

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