Rossiter

At the 2020 census, 3,191 Americans bore the surname Rossiter — 9,708th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 93,700.

By the numbers

People: 3,191
Rank: 9,708th
How common: 1 in 93,700
Per 100,000: 1.1

Where the name comes from

Variant of Rochester.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 90.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.0%
Hispanic or Latino 3.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.3%
Black, not Hispanic 0.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.1%

Notable people called Rossiter

Jordan Rossiter (born 1997)English association football player
Margaret W. Rossiter (1944–2025)American historian of science
James Rossiter (born 1983)English racecar driver

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

Surnames like Rossiter

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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.