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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

'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.

Meaning of ROUSSEAU in historical publications

(origin: Fr.) One having reddish hair, carrot color. Ruisseau, local, a brook.

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


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.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for ROUSSEAU

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