How common is the surname Roehl?

2,513 people in the United States had the surname Roehl in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 122,859 Americans. It ranked 12,378th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Roehl?

In the 2010 Census, 91% of people named Roehl identified as white (not Hispanic), and 4.3% as American Indian and Alaska Native.

Is the surname Roehl getting more or less common?

Less common. 2,535 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,513 in 2010, down 0.9%.

The surname Roehl

A surname, carried by 2,513 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex R400

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Roehl is more common than 92.4% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 2,513 people named Roehl in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 122,859 Americans. That is down 0.9% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,535.

#12,378

rank among US surnames

2,513

people in 2010

0.8

per 100,000 Americans

-0.9%

change since 2000 (was #11,399)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#12,370	Mikel	2,514	122,810
#12,378	Richer	2,513	122,859
#12,384	Barras	2,512	122,908

Who is named Roehl

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

91% of people named Roehl identified as white (not Hispanic), 4.3% as American Indian and Alaska Native and 2.2% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 91%
American Indian and Alaska Native 4.3%
Two or more races 2.2%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.6%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.8%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.5%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Roehl

Roehl has the Soundex code R400, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code R400.

Questions

How common is the surname Roehl?: 2,513 people in the United States had the surname Roehl in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 122,859 Americans. It ranked 12,378th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Roehl?: In the 2010 Census, 91% of people named Roehl identified as white (not Hispanic), and 4.3% as American Indian and Alaska Native.
Is the surname Roehl getting more or less common?: Less common. 2,535 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,513 in 2010, down 0.9%.