The ROACH surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	44,454	704	0.016	165
United States (1880 census)	16,383	340	0.033	328
Change since 1880	+28071	-364	-0.017	-163
Other Countries
Australia	2,777	569	0.017	170
United Kingdom	5,671	1103	0.012	123

Top States for ROACH by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Texas	3,716	712	0.018	178
California	2,771	1231	0.008	82
Florida	2,334	897	0.015	146
Ohio	2,219	584	0.020	195
New York	2,206	803	0.012	116
Top States for ROACH by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
South Carolina	1,586	402	0.040	395
Tennessee	2,084	425	0.037	366
West Virginia	648	413	0.036	358
Arkansas	764	454	0.029	286
Oklahoma	955	488	0.028	277

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called ROACH live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called ROACH represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called ROACH in Texas than any other state, but you are more likely to find a ROACH by picking someone at random in South Carolina than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of ROACH

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Nickname

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the ROACH surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the ROACH surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of ROACH in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	782	1.76
Mixed Race	702	1.58
Native American/Alaskan	338	0.76
Asian/Pacific	196	0.44
White (Caucasian)	36,559	82.24
Black/African American	5,881	13.23

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the ROACH surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Similar names to ROACH

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as ROACH.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.