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    The surname Rollison

    A surname, carried by 1,605 people in the United States.

    3 syllables Soundex R425

    Rollison: #17,537 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Rollison #17,537, 1,605 people Rollison: #17,537 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Rollison #17,537, 1,605 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Rollison is more common than 89.2% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,605 people named Rollison in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 192,365 Americans. That is down 6.0% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,707.

    #17,537
    rank among US surnames
    1,605
    people in 2010
    0.5
    per 100,000 Americans
    -6%
    change since 2000 (was #15,710)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #17,530Kittelson1,606192,245
    #17,537Lipsky1,605192,365
    #17,541Rommel1,604192,485

    Who is named Rollison

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

    80% of people named Rollison identified as white (not Hispanic), 15% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.4% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 80%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 15%
    • Two or more races 2.4%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.3%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 1.1%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Variant spellings

    • Rollyson

    Rollison has the Soundex code R425, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code R425.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Rollison?
    1,605 people in the United States had the surname Rollison in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 192,365 Americans. It ranked 17,537th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Rollison?
    In the 2010 Census, 80% of people named Rollison identified as white (not Hispanic), and 15% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Rollison getting more or less common?
    Less common. 1,707 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,605 in 2010, down 6.0%.
    What are other spellings of Rollison?
    Rollyson.