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    The surname Rowbotham

    An English place surname, carried by 685 people in the United States.

    3 syllables Soundex R135

    Rowbotham: #33,343 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Rowbotham #33,343, 685 people Rowbotham: #33,343 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#100Jimenez Rowbotham #33,343, 685 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Rowbotham is more common than 79.4% of them.

    Origin

    English origin

    From Old English rūh (“rough, overgrown”) + botm (“bottom”), a topographic surname for someone who lived in an overgrown valley.

    Rowbotham 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 685 people named Rowbotham in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 450,723 Americans. That is up 12% since 2000, when the Census counted 610.

    #33,343
    rank among US surnames
    685
    people in 2010
    0.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    +12.3%
    change since 2000 (was #35,003)

    Who is named Rowbotham

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

    93% of people named Rowbotham identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.5% as two or more races and 2.0% as American Indian and Alaska Native.

    • White (not Hispanic) 93%
    • Two or more races 2.5%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 2.0%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.0%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Asian & Pacific Islander are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Variant spellings

    • Robotham
    • Rowbottom

    Rowbotham has the Soundex code R135, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code R135.

    Other English surnames

    All 1,446 English surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Rowbotham come from?
    From Old English rūh (“rough, overgrown”) + botm (“bottom”), a topographic surname for someone who lived in an overgrown valley.
    How common is the surname Rowbotham?
    685 people in the United States had the surname Rowbotham in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 450,723 Americans. It ranked 33,343rd of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Rowbotham?
    In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Rowbotham identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.5% as two or more races.
    What type of surname is Rowbotham?
    Rowbotham is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Rowbotham getting more or less common?
    More common. 610 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 685 in 2010, up 12%.
    What are other spellings of Rowbotham?
    Robotham and Rowbottom.