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    The surname Roher

    A German surname, carried by 531 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex R600

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    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Roher is more common than 74.7% of them.

    Origin

    German origin

    Borrowed from German Röher, derived from Middle High German rōhen (“to grunt, roar, make a noise”). Also shortened from Röder, Roeder.

    One of 1,101 German surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 531 people named Roher in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 581,442 Americans. That is up 1.7% since 2000, when the Census counted 522.

    #41,038
    rank among US surnames
    531
    people in 2010
    0.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    +1.7%
    change since 2000 (was #39,617)

    Who is named Roher

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

    84% of people named Roher identified as white (not Hispanic), 11% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.3% as American Indian and Alaska Native.

    • White (not Hispanic) 84%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 11%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 2.3%
    • Two or more races 2.1%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Hispanic, Asian & Pacific Islander are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Surnames that sound like Roher

    Roher has the Soundex code R600, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code R600.

    Other German surnames

    All 1,101 German surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Roher come from?
    Borrowed from German Röher, derived from Middle High German rōhen (“to grunt, roar, make a noise”). Also shortened from Röder, Roeder.
    How common is the surname Roher?
    531 people in the United States had the surname Roher in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 581,442 Americans. It ranked 41,038th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Roher?
    In the 2010 Census, 84% of people named Roher identified as white (not Hispanic), and 11% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Roher getting more or less common?
    More common. 522 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 531 in 2010, up 1.7%.