Roosevelt

Meanings

1. An American surname from Dutch; borne by a political family who produced two presidents of the United States.
2. A male given name transferred from the surname, given in honor of the presidents.
3. A number of places in the United States:
4. A census-designated place in Gila County, Arizona, probably named after Theodore Roosevelt Lake.
5. A township in Decatur County, Kansas.
6. An unincorporated community and coal town in Breathitt County, Kentucky.
7. A minor city in Lake of the Woods County and Roseau County, Minnesota.
8. Two townships, in Beltrami County and Crow Wing County, Minnesota, both named after Theodore Roosevelt.
9. An unincorporated community in Douglas County, Missouri, named after Theodore Roosevelt.
10. A borough in Monmouth County, New Jersey, formerly named Jersey Homesteads and renamed in honour of Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1945.
11. Former name of Carteret, New Jersey, renamed in 1922.
12. A hamlet and census-designated place in Hempstead, Nassau County, Long Island, New York, named after Theodore Roosevelt.

Etymology

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”.