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The ROA surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 4,565 6802 0.002 17
United States (1880 census) 43 53787 0 1
Change since 1880 +4522 +46985 +N/A +16
Other Countries
Australia 30 37647 0 2
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for ROA by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 1,313 2780 0.004 39
Florida 736 3260 0.005 46
Texas 404 5778 0.002 19
New York 337 6740 0.002 18
Illinois 329 4623 0.003 26
Top States for ROA by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Florida 736 3260 0.005 46
Nevada 90 3079 0.005 45
California 1,313 2780 0.004 39
New Jersey 231 4898 0.003 27
Illinois 329 4623 0.003 26

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

Classification and Origin of ROA

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the ROA surname.

Ethnic distribution of ROA in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 556 12.18
Asian/Pacific 331 7.25
Mixed Race 48 1.05
Black/African American 35 0.77
Native American/Alaskan 25 0.55
White (Hispanic) 3,570 78.2

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

ROA is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Meaning of ROA in historical publications

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

Similar names to ROA

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as ROA.

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 ROA

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