Rose

At the 2020 census, 149,763 Americans bore the surname Rose — 179th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 1,996.

By the numbers

People: 149,763
Rank: 179th
How common: 1 in 1,996
Per 100,000: 50.1

Where the name comes from

Origin Middle English

As an English, Scottish, French, Walloon, Danish, Jewish (Yiddish רויז), and German surname, all from the noun rose. Also adapted from foreign forms of the same meaning such as Hungarian Rózsa, Rozsa, Slovak Róža, Czech Roza, etc. Compare Larose. The surname may be matronymic, but more probably topographic from residence by rose bushes or the sign of a rose, or a nickname from rosy complexion.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 78.4%
Black, not Hispanic 11.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.2%
Hispanic or Latino 4.2%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.0%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Rose

Axl Rose (born 1962)American singer-songwriter
Irwin Rose (1926–2015)American biologist
Derrick Rose (born 1988)American basketball player
Danny Rose (born 1990)English footballer
Ruby Rose (born 1986)Australian actor, model, DJ, and recording artist
Ernestine Rose (1810–1892)American feminist activist
Marco Rose (born 1976)German association football player and manager
Ralph Waldo Rose (1885–1913)American track and field athlete

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

Surnames like Rose

Also a first name

Rose has been given to 502,704 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1917. 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.