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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

'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.

Meaning of ROACH in historical publications

ROACH. See Roche.

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 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.

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

Potential typos for ROACH

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