Roa

Roa is the 5,245th most common surname in the United States, shared by 6,421 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 46,600.

By the numbers

People: 6,421
Rank: 5,245th
How common: 1 in 46,600
Per 100,000: 2.2

Where the name comes from

(surname) From Spanish Roa.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Roa described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

Hispanic or Latino 82.8%
White, not Hispanic 8.0%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 7.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 0.7%
Black, not Hispanic 0.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Roa

Augusto Roa Bastos (1917–2005)Paraguayan writer
Carlos Roa (born 1969)Argentine footballer

People named Roa with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Roa

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.