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The ROTTER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,971 14033 0.001 7
United States (1880 census) 90 33680 0 2
Change since 1880 +1881 +19647 +N/A +5
Other Countries
Australia 19 54612 0 1
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for ROTTER by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 252 10148 0.001 7
Washington 160 4533 0.003 27
New York 151 12374 0.001 8
Illinois 146 8798 0.001 12
Wisconsin 126 6527 0.002 23
Top States for ROTTER by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Washington 160 4533 0.003 27
Wisconsin 126 6527 0.002 23
Iowa 68 6538 0.002 23
Minnesota 108 6804 0.002 22
Nebraska 27 9891 0.002 16

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

Classification and Origin of ROTTER

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

Ethnic distribution of ROTTER in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 34 1.73
Black/African American 17 0.86
Mixed Race 16 0.81
Asian/Pacific 14 0.71
Native American/Alaskan 5 0.25
White (Caucasian) 1,885 95.64

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

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

Meaning of ROTTER in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of ROTTER.

Similar names to ROTTER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as ROTTER.

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 ROTTER

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