Roof

Roof is the 7,461st most common surname in the United States, shared by 4,308 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 69,400.

By the numbers

People: 4,308
Rank: 7,461st
How common: 1 in 69,400
Per 100,000: 1.4

Where the name comes from

As an English surname, spelling variant of Rolfe.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 91.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.4%
Hispanic or Latino 2.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.0%
Black, not Hispanic 0.9%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Roof

Dylann Roof (born 1994)American white supremacist and neo nazi (born April 3nd 1994)

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

Surnames like Roof

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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.