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The ROB surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 360 53782 0 1
United States (1880 census) 122 27504 0 2
Change since 1880 +238 -26278 +N/A -1
Other Countries
Australia 83 16809 0.001 5
United Kingdom 195 16753 0 4
Top States for ROB by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 48 36780 0.000 1
New York 48 30514 0.000 3
Texas 29 33781 0.000 1
Michigan 25 39570 0.000 3
Pennsylvania 15 68385 0.000 1
Top States for ROB by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Vermont 4 17913 0.001 7
Idaho 6 22696 0.000 5
North Dakota 2 27113 0.000 3
New York 48 30514 0.000 3
Michigan 25 39570 0.000 3

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

Classification and Origin of ROB

Region of origin: Asia

Country of origin: Bangladesh

Religious origin: Muslim

Ethnic distribution of ROB in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 193 53.61
Black/African American 69 19.17
Asian/Pacific 61 16.94
Mixed Race 21 5.83
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant
White (Hispanic) Less than 100 Insignificant

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

Meaning of ROB in historical publications

ROB. A nickname of Robert. ROBARTES. The same as Roberts.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to ROB

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as ROB.

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 ROB

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