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The ROME surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 5,056 6230 0.002 19
United States (1880 census) 493 9783 0.001 10
Change since 1880 +4563 +3553 +0.001 +9
Other Countries
Australia 61 21742 0 4
United Kingdom 633 7477 0.001 14
Top States for ROME by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Louisiana 1,248 530 0.028 279
California 324 8577 0.001 10
Florida 303 6712 0.002 19
Kansas 215 1498 0.008 80
New Jersey 215 4669 0.003 26
Top States for ROME by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Louisiana 1,248 530 0.028 279
Kansas 215 1498 0.008 80
Colorado 183 3177 0.004 43
Connecticut 111 4313 0.003 33
Vermont 18 5232 0.003 30

Notes

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

Classification and Origin of ROME

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Scotland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the ROME 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 ROME 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 ROME in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 923 18.26
White (Hispanic) 118 2.33
Mixed Race 63 1.25
Asian/Pacific 53 1.05
Native American/Alaskan 18 0.36
White (Caucasian) 3,881 76.76

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

Meaning of ROME in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of ROME.

Similar names to ROME

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as ROME.

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.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for ROME

The following words are slight variants of ROME that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.