Rosset Family Name and Heraldry

A coat of arms was granted to a particular family line, not to everyone named Rosset, so a shared surname is a clue rather than a claim to the arms.

How common is Rosset?

Rosset appears in national name statistics on both sides of the Atlantic. In Spain, the INE population register lists 69 people with Rosset as their first surname and 76 as their second. From 1891 to 2000, 4,556 births in France were registered under Rosset. Births ran at 253 in 1891–1900 and 368 in 1991–2000.

The meaning of Rosset is not given in the reference works we use for these short pages; a full report traces it from your own family's records.

Want more than a summary? See the Rosset family name pack.