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    The surname Rountree

    An English place surname, carried by 6,726 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex R536

    Rountree: #5,196 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Rountree #5,196, 6,726 people Rountree: #5,196 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Rountree #5,196, 6,726 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Rountree is more common than 96.8% of them.

    Origin

    English origin

    Topographic surname, from Middle English rown (“rowan”) + tre (“tree”).

    Rountree 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 6,726 people named Rountree in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 45,903 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 6,693.

    #5,196
    rank among US surnames
    6,726
    people in 2010
    2.3
    per 100,000 Americans
    +0.5%
    change since 2000 (was #4,816)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #5,192Albritton6,73745,828
    #5,194Wisdom6,73445,849
    #5,195Bremer6,73345,856
    #5,196Rountree6,72645,903
    #5,197Roybal6,72545,910

    Who is named Rountree

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

    69% of people named Rountree identified as white (not Hispanic), 26% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 69%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 26%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.3%
    • Two or more races 2.0%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.3%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Famous Rountrees

    1 notable person on Wikidata, most written-about first

    • Khalil Rountree Jr.
      American mixed martial arts fighter, born 1990

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Variant spellings

    • Rowntree

    Surnames that sound like Rountree

    Rountree has the Soundex code R536, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code R536.

    Other English surnames

    All 1,446 English surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Rountree come from?
    Topographic surname, from Middle English rown (“rowan”) + tre (“tree”).
    How common is the surname Rountree?
    6,726 people in the United States had the surname Rountree in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 45,903 Americans. It ranked 5,196th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Rountree?
    In the 2010 Census, 69% of people named Rountree identified as white (not Hispanic), and 26% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Who is the most famous person named Rountree?
    Khalil Rountree Jr., American mixed martial arts fighter.
    Where is the surname Rountree most common?
    Wikidata records people named Rountree in the United States.
    What type of surname is Rountree?
    Rountree is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Rountree getting more or less common?
    More common. 6,693 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 6,726 in 2010, up 0.5%.
    What are other spellings of Rountree?
    Rowntree.