Rolfe

Rolfe is the 7,388th most common surname in the United States, shared by 4,349 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 68,700.

By the numbers

People: 4,349
Rank: 7,388th
How common: 1 in 68,700
Per 100,000: 1.5

Where the name comes from

English surname, spelling variant of Rolf.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 84.7%
Black, not Hispanic 6.7%
Hispanic or Latino 3.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Rolfe

John Rolfe (1585–1622)English-born explorer, farmer, and merchant
Frederick Rolfe (1860–1913)British writer, photographer and historian
James Rolfe (born 1980)American filmmaker, YouTuber, and Internet personality
Chris Rolfe (born 1983)American soccer player
Robert Allen Rolfe (1855–1921)British botanist
Lilian Rolfe (1914–1945)Allied secret agent in World War II

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

Surnames like Rolfe

Also a first name

Rolfe has been given to 543 American babies as a first name since 1912, peaking in 1955. 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.