Details for the forename Rosemarie

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Rosemarie (female)


Variants:	Rosemary (F)
Pet Name(s):	Romey (F) Romy (F) Röschen (F) Rosie (F)
Derivative of:	Marie (F) Rose (F)

Source(s):	The Oxford Names Companion, OUP
Notes:	German and Scandinavian, and occasionally English, form of Rosemary [q.v.]; derived from the Latin "dew of the sea". The English form is often divided: Rose-Marie. when it may be an elision of the two names Rose and Mary/Marie.