Roosevelt (name)
The name Roosevelt is an American toponymic surname derived from the Dutch surname Van Rose(n)velt, meaning "from rose field" or "of a rose field." The most famous bearers of this name come from the Roosevelt family, a mercantile and political family descended from the 17th-century immigrant to New Netherland Claes Maartenszen van Rosenvelt. == Statistics == In the United States, the surname ranked as the 15,060th most common surname in the 1990 U.S. census, accounting for 0.001% of the American population.