Rohan

Rohan is the 10,121st most common surname in the United States, shared by 3,035 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 98,500.

By the numbers

People: 3,035
Rank: 10,121st
How common: 1 in 98,500
Per 100,000: 1.0

Where the name comes from

Origin Old French

Habitational surname from Rohan in Morbihan, Brittany. Also a variant.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 80.1%
Hispanic or Latino 7.3%
Black, not Hispanic 5.3%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 3.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.2%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Rohan

Cardinal de Rohan (1734–1803)Catholic cardinal
Marie de Rohan, Duchess of Chevreuse (1600–1679)French noble
Lukáš Rohan (born 1995)Czech canoeist
Henri II de Rohan (1579–1638)French soldier, writer and leader of the Huguenots
Jiří Rohan (born 1964)Czech slalom canoeist
Charlotte de Rohan (1737–1760)French noble
Denis Michael Rohan (1941–2013)Australian criminal
Kōda Rohan (1867–1947)Japanese author

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

Surnames like Rohan

Also a first name

Rohan has been given to 12,151 American babies as a first name since 1969, peaking in 2004. 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.