Roy

54,089 people in the United States were counted with the surname Roy in the 2020 census, making it the 606th most common in the country. That is about one person in 5,526.

By the numbers

People: 54,089
Rank: 606th
How common: 1 in 5,526
Per 100,000: 18.1

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 68.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 14.6%
Black, not Hispanic 8.1%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.9%
Hispanic or Latino 3.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.4%

Notable people called Roy

Arundhati Roy (born 1961)Indian novelist, essayist, and activist
Mouni Roy (born 1985)Indian actress
Gabrielle Roy (1909–1983)French Canadian fiction writer
Brandon Roy (born 1984)American basketball player and coach
Lesley Roy (born 1986)Irish singer
M. N. Roy (1887–1954)Indian political activist and intellectual
Bidhan Chandra Roy (1882–1962)former Chief Minister of West Bengal, India
Nirupa Roy (1930–2004)Indian actress

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

Surnames like Roy

Also a first name

Roy has been given to 411,331 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1947. 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.