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    The surname Roughton

    An English place surname, carried by 1,247 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex R235

    Roughton: #21,068 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Roughton #21,068, 1,247 people Roughton: #21,068 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Roughton #21,068, 1,247 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Roughton is more common than 87% of them.

    Origin

    English origin

    From either Old Norse rugr (“rye”) or Old English rūh (“rough”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”); compare the doublet Rowton.

    Roughton 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 1,247 people named Roughton in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 247,591 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 1,243.

    #21,068
    rank among US surnames
    1,247
    people in 2010
    0.4
    per 100,000 Americans
    +0.3%
    change since 2000 (was #19,976)

    Who is named Roughton

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

    95% of people named Roughton identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.3% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 95%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.6%
    • Two or more races 1.3%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%
    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

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Surnames that sound like Roughton

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

    Other English surnames

    All 1,446 English surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Roughton come from?
    From either Old Norse rugr (“rye”) or Old English rūh (“rough”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”); compare the doublet Rowton.
    How common is the surname Roughton?
    1,247 people in the United States had the surname Roughton in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 247,591 Americans. It ranked 21,068th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Roughton?
    In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Roughton identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    What type of surname is Roughton?
    Roughton is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Roughton getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,243 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,247 in 2010, up 0.3%.