The ROUSSEAU surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	7,854	4185	0.003	29
United States (1880 census)	640	7915	0.001	13
Change since 1880	+7214	+3730	+0.002	+16
Other Countries
Australia	39	31098	0	2
United Kingdom	243	14641	0.001	5

Top States for ROUSSEAU by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Massachusetts	884	928	0.014	139
Florida	811	2343	0.005	51
Michigan	530	1977	0.005	53
California	502	5243	0.001	15
New York	468	3847	0.002	25
Top States for ROUSSEAU by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
New Hampshire	373	434	0.030	302
Delaware	188	643	0.024	240
Rhode Island	174	775	0.017	166
Maine	211	1118	0.017	166
Vermont	99	995	0.016	163

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

Classification and Origin of ROUSSEAU

Region of origin: Europe

Country of origin: France

Language of origin: French

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	732	9.32
White (Hispanic)	163	2.08
Mixed Race	144	1.83
Native American/Alaskan	126	1.6
Asian/Pacific	44	0.56
White (Caucasian)	6,645	84.61

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

Similar names to ROUSSEAU

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as ROUSSEAU.

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.