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The ROS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,931 14250 0.001 7
United States (1880 census) 93 32971 0 2
Change since 1880 +1838 +18721 +N/A +5
Other Countries
Australia 115 12608 0.001 7
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for ROS by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 347 9764 0.001 10
Florida 328 7563 0.002 21
Massachusetts 134 7767 0.002 21
Pennsylvania 101 18235 0.001 8
New York 98 23975 0.001 5
Top States for ROS by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Massachusetts 134 7767 0.002 21
Florida 328 7563 0.002 21
Mississippi 45 6657 0.002 16
Alabama 63 7654 0.001 14
Delaware 10 16158 0.001 13

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

Classification and Origin of ROS

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the ROS surname.

Ethnic distribution of ROS in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Asian/Pacific 886 45.88
White (Caucasian) 464 24.03
White (Hispanic) 439 22.73
Mixed Race 97 5.02
Black/African American 45 2.33
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 0

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

ROS is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Meaning of ROS in historical publications

%M' ROS. See under COENISH SURN.UIES.

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 ROS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as ROS.

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 ROS

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