The ROOT surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	20,001	1641	0.007	74
United States (1880 census)	8,188	738	0.016	164
Change since 1880	+11813	-903	-0.009	-90
Other Countries
Australia	108	13316	0.001	7
United Kingdom	1,096	4880	0.002	24

Top States for ROOT by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Michigan	2,340	387	0.024	235
California	1,664	1908	0.005	49
New York	1,594	1117	0.008	84
Ohio	1,304	995	0.011	115
Pennsylvania	1,064	1313	0.009	87
Top States for ROOT by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Vermont	229	363	0.038	376
Michigan	2,340	387	0.024	235
Idaho	184	905	0.014	142
Nebraska	234	736	0.014	137
Washington	756	920	0.013	128

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

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

Classification and Origin of ROOT

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Mixed Race	268	1.34
White (Hispanic)	250	1.25
Native American/Alaskan	192	0.96
Asian/Pacific	136	0.68
Black/African American	136	0.68
White (Caucasian)	19,017	95.08

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

Similar names to ROOT

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as ROOT.

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.