Roux

Roux is the 10,161st most common surname in the United States, shared by 3,023 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 98,900.

By the numbers

People: 3,023
Rank: 10,161st
How common: 1 in 98,900
Per 100,000: 1.0

Where the name comes from

Rubik's cube thingy's named after French speedcuber Gilles Roux (WCA ID: [https://www.worldcubeassociation.org/persons/2004ROUX01 2004ROUX01]).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 81.2%
Black, not Hispanic 5.7%
Hispanic or Latino 5.1%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 5.1%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 2.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Roux

Yvon Le Roux (born 1960)French association football player and manager
Bruno Le Roux (born 1965)French politician
Kévin Le Roux (born 1989)French volleyball player and beach volleyball player
Willie le Roux (born 1989)South African rugby union footballer

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

Surnames like Roux

Also a first name

Roux has been given to 502 American babies as a first name since 2011, peaking in 2023. 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.