Roe

24,654 people in the United States were counted with the surname Roe in the 2020 census, making it the 1,404th most common in the country. That is about one person in 12,100.

By the numbers

People: 24,654
Rank: 1,404th
How common: 1 in 12,100
Per 100,000: 8.3

Where the name comes from

Origin a nickname

From a Middle English nickname meaning a roe.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 87.6%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.5%
Hispanic or Latino 3.4%
Black, not Hispanic 3.4%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Roe

Alex Roe (born 1990)British actor
Tommy Roe (born 1942)American pop music singer-songwriter
Thomas Roe (1581–1644)English diplomat
Phil Roe (born 1945)American politician
James M. Roe (born 1943)American astronomer

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

Surnames like Roe

Also a first name

Roe has been given to 1,119 American babies as a first name since 1881, peaking in 1916. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

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.