How common is the surname Rothe?

2,831 people in the United States had the surname Rothe in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 109,059 Americans. It ranked 11,172nd of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Rothe?

In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Rothe identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Rothe getting more or less common?

More common. 2,815 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,831 in 2010, up 0.6%.

The surname Rothe

A German surname, carried by 2,831 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex R300

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Rothe is more common than 93.1% of them.

Origin

German origin

Borrowed from German Rothe.

One of 1,101 German surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 2,831 people named Rothe in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 109,059 Americans. That is up 0.6% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,815.

#11,172

rank among US surnames

2,831

people in 2010

1.0

per 100,000 Americans

+0.6%

change since 2000 (was #10,470)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#11,163	Pittenger	2,834	108,943
#11,168	Dewar	2,833	108,982
#11,170	Gines	2,832	109,020
#11,172	Rothe	2,831	109,059
#11,174	Hornung	2,830	109,097
#11,179	Lucey	2,829	109,136

Who is named Rothe

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

94% of people named Rothe identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.4% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 94%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.6%
Two or more races 1.4%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.9%

The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Native American are not shown.

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Rothe

Rothe has the Soundex code R300, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code R300.

Other German surnames

All 1,101 German surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Rothe come from?: Borrowed from German Rothe.
How common is the surname Rothe?: 2,831 people in the United States had the surname Rothe in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 109,059 Americans. It ranked 11,172nd of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Rothe?: In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Rothe identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Rothe getting more or less common?: More common. 2,815 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,831 in 2010, up 0.6%.