The ROYE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	1,658	16057	0.001	6
United States (1880 census)	103	30898	0	2
Change since 1880	+1555	+14841	+N/A	+4
Other Countries
Australia	6	121717	0	0
United Kingdom	190	16982	0	4

Top States for ROYE by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Texas	378	5719	0.002	18
Florida	125	15058	0.001	8
Oklahoma	112	4280	0.003	32
Pennsylvania	105	15019	0.001	9
Virginia	101	7578	0.001	14
Top States for ROYE by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Washington DC	22	2848	0.004	38
Oklahoma	112	4280	0.003	32
Mississippi	80	4017	0.003	28
Texas	378	5719	0.002	18
Virginia	101	7578	0.001	14

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

Classification and Origin of ROYE

Region of origin: Europe

Name derivation: From given name or forename

Ethnic distribution of ROYE in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	400	24.13
White (Hispanic)	53	3.2
Mixed Race	44	2.65
Native American/Alaskan	27	1.63
Asian/Pacific	17	1.03
White (Caucasian)	1,117	67.37

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

Similar names to ROYE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as ROYE.

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.