Roger

3,071 people in the United States were counted with the surname Roger in the 2020 census, making it the 10,018th most common in the country. That is about one person in 97,300.

By the numbers

People: 3,071
Rank: 10,018th
How common: 1 in 97,300
Per 100,000: 1.0

Where the name comes from

Origin a patronymic

From Old French Rogier, from the Frankish equivalent of Old English Hrōþgār (see Hroðgar), from Proto-Germanic *Hrōþigaizaz (“fame-spear”). Compare also Rutger.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 58.7%
Black, not Hispanic 22.9%
Hispanic or Latino 12.6%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.1%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.2%

Notable people called Roger

Frère Roger (1915–2005)Swiss monk
Michel Roger (born 1949)French civil servant
Estienne Roger (1665–1722)French-Dutch printer and publisher
Julius Roger (1819–1865)German entomologist
Jean-Henri Roger (1949–2012)French film director

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

Surnames like Roger

Also a first name

Roger has been given to 443,830 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1953. 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.