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The ROLES surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,693 15796 0.001 6
United States (1880 census) 306 14042 0.001 6
Change since 1880 +1387 -1754 0 0
Other Countries
Australia 205 7399 0.001 13
United Kingdom 649 7332 0.001 14
Top States for ROLES by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Pennsylvania 190 9540 0.002 15
Minnesota 140 6374 0.003 28
Virginia 126 6997 0.002 18
Maryland 110 6328 0.002 21
California 106 25757 0.000 3
Top States for ROLES by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
West Virginia 106 2573 0.006 59
Minnesota 140 6374 0.003 28
Kansas 75 5329 0.003 28
Oregon 73 7205 0.002 21
Arkansas 56 6042 0.002 21

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

Classification and Origin of ROLES

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 129 7.62
White (Hispanic) 50 2.95
Mixed Race 27 1.59
Asian/Pacific 12 0.71
Native American/Alaskan 12 0.71
White (Caucasian) 1,463 86.41

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

Meaning of ROLES in historical publications

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

Similar names to ROLES

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as ROLES.

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 ROLES

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