Roosevelt

Meaning

1. A male given name transferred from the surname, given in honor of the presidents.
2. A township in Decatur County, Kansas.
3. Two townships, in Beltrami County and Crow Wing County, Minnesota, both named after Theodore Roosevelt.
4. A number of places in the United States:
5. An American surname from Dutch; borne by a political family who produced two presidents of the United States.
6. A census-designated place in Gila County, Arizona, probably named after Theodore Roosevelt Lake.
7. An unincorporated community and coal town in Breathitt County, Kentucky.
8. A minor city in Lake of the Woods County and Roseau County, Minnesota.

Etymology / origin

From a Dutch name of a farm, either Rozenveld (one in Zeeland) or Ruiseveld (one in Brabant), from Middle Dutch; the former could be a compound of rose (“wild rose / poppy?”) + velt (“open country; field”) or like the latter of rusch (“rush reed”) + velt, “open land growing with rushes”.

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