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    The surname Roache

    A surname, carried by 1,884 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex R200

    Roache: #15,533 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Roache #15,533, 1,884 people Roache: #15,533 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Roache #15,533, 1,884 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Roache is more common than 90.4% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,884 people named Roache in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 163,878 Americans. That is up 15% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,646.

    #15,533
    rank among US surnames
    1,884
    people in 2010
    0.6
    per 100,000 Americans
    +14.5%
    change since 2000 (was #16,147)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #15,527Rayas1,885163,791
    #15,533Kadlec1,884163,878
    #15,541Pomerantz1,883163,965

    Who is named Roache

    Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

    56% of people named Roache identified as white (not Hispanic), 34% as Black (not Hispanic) and 6.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 56%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 34%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 6.6%
    • Two or more races 2.2%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.5%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Roache

    Roache has the Soundex code R200, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code R200.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Roache?
    1,884 people in the United States had the surname Roache in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 163,878 Americans. It ranked 15,533rd of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Roache?
    In the 2010 Census, 56% of people named Roache identified as white (not Hispanic), and 34% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Roache getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,646 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,884 in 2010, up 15%.