How common is the surname Roseman?

3,993 people in the United States had the surname Roseman in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 77,322 Americans. It ranked 8,297th of 162,253 surnames.

Is the surname Roseman getting more or less common?

More common. 3,792 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,993 in 2010, up 5.3%.

The surname Roseman

A nickname surname, carried by 3,993 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex R255

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Roseman is more common than 94.9% of them.

Origin

* From Middle English Rosamunde, a female given name ultimately from Proto-Germanic *hrussą (“horse”) + *mundō (“protection”), but by medieval folk etymology interpreted as Latin rosa munda (“pure rose”) and therefore as an epithet of the Virgin Mary. * An artificial name or name adopted by the husband of a woman with the Yiddish name רויזע (royze); see Rose. * An Americanized form of German Rosemann or Rosmann; see Rossmann. * An Americanized form of Czech, Hungarian, Serbo-Croatian, Slovak, and Slovene Rozman, Rožman, or Rozmán.

Roseman is a nickname surname: from a description or nickname of an ancestor.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 3,993 people named Roseman in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 77,322 Americans. That is up 5.3% since 2000, when the Census counted 3,792.

#8,297

rank among US surnames

3,993

people in 2010

1.4

per 100,000 Americans

+5.3%

change since 2000 (was #8,061)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#8,291	Bergin	3,996	77,264
#8,293	Blackshear	3,995	77,283
#8,295	Ice	3,994	77,302
#8,297	Schiff	3,993	77,322
#8,299	Hoard	3,992	77,341
#8,304	Vannoy	3,991	77,360

Who is named Roseman

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

76% of people named Roseman identified as white (not Hispanic), 19% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.1% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 76%
Black (not Hispanic) 19%
Two or more races 2.1%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.7%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.1%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Roseman

Roseman has the Soundex code R255, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code R255.

Questions

Where does the surname Roseman come from?: * From Middle English Rosamunde, a female given name ultimately from Proto-Germanic *hrussą (“horse”) + *mundō (“protection”), but by medieval folk etymology interpreted as Latin rosa munda (“pure rose”) and therefore as an epithet of the Virgin Mary. * An artificial name or name adopted by the…
How common is the surname Roseman?: 3,993 people in the United States had the surname Roseman in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 77,322 Americans. It ranked 8,297th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Roseman?: In the 2010 Census, 76% of people named Roseman identified as white (not Hispanic), and 19% as Black (not Hispanic).
What type of surname is Roseman?: Roseman is a nickname surname, from a description or nickname of an ancestor.
Is the surname Roseman getting more or less common?: More common. 3,792 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,993 in 2010, up 5.3%.