Roswell

English

English habitational surname from a lost or unidentified place.

Roswell (countable and uncountable, plural Roswells)

A surname.
A city, the county seat of Chaves County, New Mexico, known for conspiracy theories that its Roswell Army Air Field has recovered UFOs and extraterrestrials.
- (1997) So go on with your life / Forget that Roswell crap / Show love to the black suit / 'Cuz that's the Men In [...] Black "Men in Black" by Will Smith (1997)
The most significant ufological event of a region.
- 1998, Jim Wilson, Six Unexplainable Encounters Popular Mechanics, Hearst Magazines, page 66:
  Among the cases he examined was an incident that has come to be known as England’s Roswell.
- 2007, Rodney Castleden, Natural Disasters That Changed the World, Book Sales, page 272:
  Kazantsev’s story was for some unaccountable reason taken seriously in the West, leading to some enthusiasts reffering to Tunguska as the Russian Roswell.
- 2008, Noe Torres, Ruben Uriarte, Mexico's Roswell: The Chihuahua UFO Crash, Lulu.com, page 3:
  Dubbed “Mexico’s Roswell,” the mid-air collision near Coyame of an airplane and a UFO has been the subject of a major documentary for the History Channel’s UFO Hunters series in 2008, and numerous articles in newspapers, magazines, and Websites.
A city in Fulton County, Georgia, United States.
An unincorporatedcommunity in Canyon County, Idaho, United States.
A village in Tuscarawas County, Ohio, United States.
A census-designated place in Miner County, South Dakota, United States.

place name

According to the 2010 United States Census, Roswell is the 38582^nd most common surname in the United States, belonging to 573 individuals. Roswell is most common among White (86.56%) individuals.