The surname Roig
A Catalan surname, carried by 1,433 people in the United States.
1 syllable Soundex R200
Origin
Catalan origin
Borrowed from Catalan Roig.
One of 39 Catalan surnames on this site.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 1,433 people named Roig in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 215,454 Americans. That is up 18% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,215.
Who is named Roig
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
65% of people named Roig identified as Hispanic or Latino (any race), 33% as white (not Hispanic) and 1.1% as two or more races.
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 65%
- White (not Hispanic) 33%
- Two or more races 1.1%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.9%
- Black (not Hispanic) 0.6%
Compare: most common surnames among Hispanic and Latino Americans.
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Roig has the Soundex code R200, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code R200.
Other Catalan surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname Roig come from?
- Borrowed from Catalan Roig.
- How common is the surname Roig?
- 1,433 people in the United States had the surname Roig in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 215,454 Americans. It ranked 19,012th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Roig?
- In the 2010 Census, 65% of people named Roig identified as Hispanic or Latino (any race), and 33% as white (not Hispanic).
- Is the surname Roig getting more or less common?
- More common. 1,215 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,433 in 2010, up 18%.