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The ROPER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 19,520 1680 0.007 72
United States (1880 census) 4,295 1442 0.009 86
Change since 1880 +15225 -238 -0.002 -14
Other Countries
Australia 1,006 1642 0.006 62
United Kingdom 7,407 830 0.016 161
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.

Classification and Origin of ROPER

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Occupational Name

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

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 357 1.83
Mixed Race 349 1.79
Native American/Alaskan 113 0.58
Asian/Pacific 103 0.53
White (Caucasian) 14,790 75.77
Black/African American 3,806 19.5

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

Meaning of ROPER in historical publications

ROPER. I doubt not from the trade of making ropes, especially since we have the analogous names, Corder, Stringer, Twyner, &c., and Le Roper is common in old records. But an exception from so plebeian an origin is claimed b)' one family thus denominated. " There is a very ancient family of the Ropers in Cumberland, who have lived immemorially near a quarry of red spate there, from whence they first took the surname of Rubra Spatha." Wright's Coiu't-Hand — where we find " Rouxcarrier, Roussir, Rooper, or Roper," latinized by De Rubra Spatha. Fuller places this family in another county. " The name of Roper in Derbyshire changed from Musard to RubraSpatlia, Rospear, Rouspee, Rooper, Roper." Worthies i. 71. Lord Teynham's family claim fi'om William Roper, or Rosper, who lived in the reign of Henr}' III., and whose descendants were of St. Duustau's, near Canterbury, temp. Edward III. The family have ever since been connected with Kent. See Shirley's Noble and Gentle Men.

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 ROPER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as ROPER.

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Potential typos for ROPER

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