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Royston (M)>

Royston (male)

Derivative of:Rose (M)
   
Source(s): The Oxford Names Companion, OUP
Notes:

English from the surname, itself derived from a place-name in Hertfordshire, England, Old English "Royce's settlement".  Royce is believed to be an obsolete variant of Rose.

Some English-speaking communities, especially in the Carribean, have used the name in recent times as a form of "Roy's son".