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    The surname Roston

    An English place surname, carried by 604 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex R235

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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). Roston is more common than 77.2% of them.

    Origin

    English origin

    From the Old English personal name *Hrōþsiġe + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”). The personal name is composed by the elements hrēþ (“glory, triumph”) + siġe (“victory”).

    Roston is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

    One of 1,446 English surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 604 people named Roston in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 511,168 Americans. That is down 2.1% since 2000, when the Census counted 617.

    #36,970
    rank among US surnames
    604
    people in 2010
    0.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    -2.1%
    change since 2000 (was #34,673)

    Who is named Roston

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

    47% of people named Roston identified as Black (not Hispanic), 44% as white (not Hispanic) and 4.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • Black (not Hispanic) 47%
    • White (not Hispanic) 44%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 4.1%
    • Two or more races 4.0%
    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 Roston

    Roston has the Soundex code R235, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code R235.

    Other English surnames

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    Questions

    Where does the surname Roston come from?
    From the Old English personal name *Hrōþsiġe + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”). The personal name is composed by the elements hrēþ (“glory, triumph”) + siġe (“victory”).
    How common is the surname Roston?
    604 people in the United States had the surname Roston in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 511,168 Americans. It ranked 36,970th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Roston?
    In the 2010 Census, 47% of people named Roston identified as Black (not Hispanic), and 44% as white (not Hispanic).
    What type of surname is Roston?
    Roston is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Roston getting more or less common?
    Less common. 617 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 604 in 2010, down 2.1%.