# Rothenberg

> English word · Proper noun · frequency rank #60,432

## Definitions
1. A surname.

## Etymology
* As a Jewish surname, derived from German Rot (“red”) + Berg (“mountain, hill”).
* As a German and Jewish surname, from several placenames referring to Rothenberg, from earlier Rodenberg, probably of the meaning of the above.
* Also as a Jewish surname, variant of Rothenburg, itself probably a variant of Rotenburg.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/rothenberg