The surname Rowton
An English place surname, carried by 893 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex R350
Origin
English origin
From Old English rūh (“rough”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”); compare the doublet Roughton.
Rowton 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 893 people named Rowton in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 345,740 Americans. That is up 6.7% since 2000, when the Census counted 837.
Who is named Rowton
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
91% of people named Rowton identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.4% as two or more races and 2.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- White (not Hispanic) 91%
- Two or more races 3.4%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.5%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 1.7%
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Rowton has the Soundex code R350, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code R350.
Other English surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname Rowton come from?
- From Old English rūh (“rough”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”); compare the doublet Roughton.
- How common is the surname Rowton?
- 893 people in the United States had the surname Rowton in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 345,740 Americans. It ranked 27,110th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Rowton?
- In the 2010 Census, 91% of people named Rowton identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.4% as two or more races.
- What type of surname is Rowton?
- Rowton is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
- Is the surname Rowton getting more or less common?
- More common. 837 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 893 in 2010, up 6.7%.