The ROUS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	317	59611	0	1
United States (1880 census)	100	31507	0	2
Change since 1880	+217	-28104	+N/A	-1
Other Countries
Australia	26	42349	0	2
United Kingdom	254	14209	0.001	6

Top States for ROUS by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	75	27752	0.000	2
Illinois	42	28949	0.000	3
New York	31	51760	0.000	2
Kansas	15	17944	0.001	6
South Dakota	15	8361	0.002	20
Top States for ROUS by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
South Dakota	15	8361	0.002	20
Kansas	15	17944	0.001	6
Rhode Island	4	26713	0.000	4
Illinois	42	28949	0.000	3
Montana	3	33690	0.000	3

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

Classification and Origin of ROUS

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Caucasian)	263	82.97
Asian/Pacific	37	11.67
Mixed Race	8	2.52
White (Hispanic)	5	1.58
Black/African American	Less than 100	Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan	Less than 100	Insignificant

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

Meaning of ROUS in historical publications

ROUS. The O.Fr. rous, from Latin rufus, red, has originated the names Eous, Eouse, Rowse, and the diminutive Eowsell, whence also in many cases Eussell, although the last has sometimes a local source. The name occurs in the collection of names called the Roll of Battel Abbey, and there is no doubt of its early Norman origin. The cognate Leroux is still a common surname in Normandy. The ancestor of the family is said to have been Ealph le Eufus, or Eous, who came hither with the Conqueror. From him descended the noble family (Stradbroke) settled in Suffolk from temp. Edward III., and the Eouses of Cornwall and Devon. C. S. Gilbert's Cornwall. The senior line was Eons of Modbury, CO. Devon ; and the next branch, that of Edmerstou, sprang from Sir Eobert le Eous, a knight-banneret under Edward the Black Prince. B.L.G.

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 ROUS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as ROUS.

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.