The ROOTS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	1,040	22973	0	4
United States (1880 census)	483	9962	0.001	10
Change since 1880	+557	-13011	+N/A	-6
Other Countries
Australia	403	3923	0.002	25
United Kingdom	915	5630	0.002	20

Top States for ROOTS by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	170	14599	0.001	5
Virginia	123	6174	0.002	17
Texas	59	23189	0.000	3
Michigan	58	21706	0.001	6
Illinois	48	27591	0.000	4
Top States for ROOTS by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Washington DC	34	1832	0.006	59
Virginia	123	6174	0.002	17
Montana	9	15492	0.001	10
Maryland	48	11554	0.001	9
Rhode Island	7	19193	0.001	7

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

Classification and Origin of ROOTS

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 ROOTS 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 ROOTS 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 ROOTS in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Caucasian)	498	47.88
Black/African American	486	46.73
Mixed Race	29	2.79
White (Hispanic)	19	1.83
Asian/Pacific	Less than 100	Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan	Less than 100	Insignificant

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

Similar names to ROOTS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as ROOTS.

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.