Last Name ROSE

Summary/Contribute


Meaning	The son of Rose. Latin 'rosa,' a rose. Very popular at the period surnames were becoming hereditary; hence strongly represented in all English directories. Also, local, 'of the rose,' i.e. at the rose-tree, or at the sign of the Rose.

Origin	English, Jewish, Spanish, Danish, French, German, Italian, Irish, Creole, Austrian, South african, Hungarian, Cape verdean, Guam

Rank	168 (2000 US census)	157 (1990 US census)

Count	146,924 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that

84.23%, or 123754 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
10.86%, or 15956 total occurrences, as black,
0.52%, or 764 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
0.61%, or 896 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
1.83%, or 2689 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
1.95%, or 2865 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.

How many distinct last names exist in the United States of America?

How does one estimate/guess that number? The first source that comes to mind is the result of the latest available census. We know that 2000 year census presents us with a little over 150,000 unique surnames. The least po...

Ukrainian middle names

Ukrainian middle names form the same way as Russian ones, except that for girls, the patronymic ending is '-ivna' rather than '-ovna' or '-evna.' Follow the Russian middle names link to get any additional information.

Census 2000: how many distinct surnames are there?

Even after applying various edits and acceptance criteria to the names, there are a sizable number of unique names in the population. Over 6 million last names were identified. Many of these names were either unique (occurred once)...