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    The surname Roff

    A surname, carried by 1,339 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex R100

    Roff: #19,997 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Roff #19,997, 1,339 people Roff: #19,997 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Roff #19,997, 1,339 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Roff is more common than 87.7% of them.

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,339 people named Roff in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 230,579 Americans. That is up 2.1% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,311.

    #19,997
    rank among US surnames
    1,339
    people in 2010
    0.5
    per 100,000 Americans
    +2.1%
    change since 2000 (was #19,164)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #19,992Couillard1,340230,407
    #19,997Jeansonne1,339230,579

    Who is named Roff

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

    93% of people named Roff identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.7% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 93%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.0%
    • Two or more races 1.7%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 1.6%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.7%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Roff

    Roff has the Soundex code R100, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code R100.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Roff?
    1,339 people in the United States had the surname Roff in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 230,579 Americans. It ranked 19,997th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Roff?
    In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Roff identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    Is the surname Roff getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,311 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,339 in 2010, up 2.1%.