The ROTHSCHILD surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	2,970	10010	0.001	11
United States (1880 census)	615	8170	0.001	12
Change since 1880	+2355	-1840	0	-1
Other Countries
Australia	40	30377	0	2
United Kingdom	110	23079	0	2

Top States for ROTHSCHILD by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
New York	474	3561	0.002	25
California	387	6295	0.001	11
Florida	279	6159	0.002	17
New Jersey	254	3322	0.003	30
Illinois	196	5800	0.002	16
Top States for ROTHSCHILD by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
New Jersey	254	3322	0.003	30
Washington DC	15	3357	0.003	26
New York	474	3561	0.002	25
Massachusetts	130	5547	0.002	20
Maryland	103	4956	0.002	19

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

Classification and Origin of ROTHSCHILD

Language of origin: Hebrew

Religious origin: Jewish

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the ROTHSCHILD 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.

Ethnic distribution of ROTHSCHILD in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	143	4.81
White (Hispanic)	41	1.38
Mixed Race	33	1.11
White (Caucasian)	2,735	92.09
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 ROTHSCHILD surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of ROTHSCHILD in historical publications

From a town in Denmark, which is said to take its name from a river with which it is watered that drives several mills. Roe, in the ancient Danish language, signifies a king, and kille, a stream of water or brook, i. e., the king’s brook. Some have given the signification “Red—shield” to the name, from Roth, red.

Arthur, William (1857) An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names. New York: Sheldon, Blakeman. Public Domain.

ROTHSCHILD. Whatever may have been the origin of this name, its component parts are the German for " red shiekl," and it is not improbable that it was originally assumed, in chivalric times, by one who chose to carry a weapon of that colour. There are several instances of some peculiarity in the weapons of ancient warriors having given rise to sobriquets, and even to transmissible or family names, such as Lougespee, Strongbow, Fortescue, Brownsword. We have also an authenticated instance of an ' armiger ' who chose to bear his ensigns with the single tincture Gules, or red. In the curious heraldric poem on the Siege of Carlaverock, A.D. 1300, one of the commanders is described as bearing, not indeed a shield, but a banner, entirety red : —

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 ROTHSCHILD

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as ROTHSCHILD.

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.