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The ROE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 24,699 1307 0.009 92
United States (1880 census) 8,085 744 0.016 162
Change since 1880 +16614 -563 -0.007 -70
Other Countries
Australia 1,261 1315 0.008 77
United Kingdom 7,905 782 0.017 172
Top States for ROE by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 1,811 1796 0.005 53
Ohio 1,740 728 0.015 153
Texas 1,720 1436 0.008 82
Michigan 1,496 676 0.015 151
New York 1,274 1429 0.007 67
Top States for ROE by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Montana 172 566 0.019 191
Kentucky 740 811 0.018 183
Iowa 514 574 0.018 176
Indiana 961 733 0.016 158
South Dakota 118 667 0.016 156

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

Classification and Origin of ROE

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 ROE 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 ROE 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 ROE in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 785 3.18
White (Hispanic) 385 1.56
Mixed Race 338 1.37
Asian/Pacific 262 1.06
Native American/Alaskan 158 0.64
White (Caucasian) 22,770 92.19

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

Meaning of ROE in historical publications

ROE. From the animal — first applied to a swift runner. See Tiay.

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 ROE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as ROE.

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 ROE

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