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    The surname Roseboro

    A surname, carried by 1,798 people in the United States.

    3 syllables Soundex R216

    Roseboro: #16,100 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Roseboro #16,100, 1,798 people Roseboro: #16,100 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Roseboro #16,100, 1,798 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Roseboro is more common than 90.1% of them.

    Origin

    Variant of Roxburgh.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,798 people named Roseboro in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 171,716 Americans. That is up 14% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,571.

    #16,100
    rank among US surnames
    1,798
    people in 2010
    0.6
    per 100,000 Americans
    +14.4%
    change since 2000 (was #16,745)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #16,098Ferron1,799171,621
    #16,100Coughlan1,798171,716
    #16,108Parshall1,797171,812

    Who is named Roseboro

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

    88% of people named Roseboro identified as Black (not Hispanic), 6.6% as white (not Hispanic) and 3.3% as two or more races.

    • Black (not Hispanic) 88%
    • White (not Hispanic) 6.6%
    • Two or more races 3.3%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.3%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among Black Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Roseboro

    Roseboro has the Soundex code R216, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code R216.

    Questions

    Where does the surname Roseboro come from?
    Variant of Roxburgh.
    How common is the surname Roseboro?
    1,798 people in the United States had the surname Roseboro in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 171,716 Americans. It ranked 16,100th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Roseboro?
    In the 2010 Census, 88% of people named Roseboro identified as Black (not Hispanic), and 6.6% as white (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Roseboro getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,571 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,798 in 2010, up 14%.