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The ROUGHTON surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,243 19976 0 5
United States (1880 census) 214 18380 0 4
Change since 1880 +1029 -1596 +N/A +1
Other Countries
Australia 45 27740 0 3
United Kingdom 586 7934 0.001 13
Top States for ROUGHTON by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
North Carolina 193 4536 0.002 24
Georgia 108 6463 0.001 13
California 99 23128 0.000 3
Alabama 77 5690 0.002 17
Florida 77 21283 0.000 5
Top States for ROUGHTON by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
North Carolina 193 4536 0.002 24
Arkansas 54 5318 0.002 20
Alabama 77 5690 0.002 17
Georgia 108 6463 0.001 13
Delaware 9 14319 0.001 11

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

Classification and Origin of ROUGHTON

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

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

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 20 1.61
Mixed Race 11 0.88
Black/African American 9 0.72
White (Caucasian) 1,192 95.9
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 ROUGHTON surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of ROUGHTON in historical publications

ROUGHTON. Parishes in Norfolk and Lincoln.

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 ROUGHTON

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as ROUGHTON.

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 ROUGHTON

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