Roth
surname · English · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Roth is a surname, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. In Slovenia it is the 10th most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and German, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: (i) person who lives in a woodland clearing; (ii) medieval German/Jewish nickname for a red-haired person; (iii) from Germanic names with hrod ‘fame’.
- CZCzechia1 in 52◐
- GEGeorgia1 in 86
- PLPoland1 in 100
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈2.6M ●
- #542 ●
- 7 ●
- Sources
- 549 ●
- 1 in 52 ◐
across 15 countries
of 16M given names
recorded for this name
6.7M records
Official registry-verified
Czechia
Spellings & scripts●
9 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Luque in AR Argentina, ES Spain, PE Peru and 3 more, Luke in AU Australia, GB United Kingdom, IE Ireland and 1 more, Luka in GE Georgia, HR Croatia, SI Slovenia and 1 more and Los in US United States, CA Canada.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin●
(i) person who lives in a woodland clearing; (ii) medieval German/Jewish nickname for a red-haired person; (iii) from Germanic names with hrod ‘fame’.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | — | 1,341,525△ | 16K rec. | 1 in 158 | 1.3M | Luca | 143 |
| AU Australia | #51 | 427,023 | 360K rec. | — | 353 | Luke | 331 |
| GB United Kingdom | #162 | 412,774 | 364K rec. | — | 2.8K | Luke | 277 |
| PL Poland | #30 | 382,274△ | 107K rec. | 1 in 100 | 383K | Łukasz | 123 |
| AR Argentina | #448 | 376,366 | 241K rec. | — | 31K | Luque | 97 |
| CA Canada | #343 | 362,877 | 118K rec. | — | 139 | Los | 222 |
| IT Italy | #14 | 295,774 | 297K rec. | — | 5 | Luca | 275 |
| US United States | #526 | 266,792 | 4.2M rec. | 1 in 1.2K | 267K | Los | 549 |
| CZ Czechia | #472 | 205,964△ | 889 rec. | 1 in 52 | 206K | Lucas | 63 |
| FR France | — | 185,875△ | 113 rec. | 1 in 365 | 186K | Roet | 13 |
| DE Germany | — | 126,826 | 121K rec. | — | 2 | Roth | 216 |
| PE Peru | — | 122,388 | 113K rec. | — | — | Luque | 83 |
Roughly 1.3M people in Brazil bear this name (about 1 in 158). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English544K62%
- German144K16%
- Spanish43K5%
- French41K5%
- 18K2%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 544,035 | 62% |
| German | 144,425 | 16% |
| Spanish | 42,724 | 5% |
| French | 40,652 | 5% |
| 18,447 | 2% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Roth is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, from OE *roþ ‘clearing’; first attested Adam, Henry atte Rothe 1346 ColchCt
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In German, Toponymic surname, from place name Roth; bearer count 25445+6450. Also discussed as often relating to red hair.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte
In English, A surname from Middle English of English origin.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In German, Familienname zu rot; persönliche Eigenschaft: Haarfarbe/rotes Haar. Belegt: 26243.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
In English, David Lee, rock singer; Philip, US
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Over time●
Show as table
| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1955 | 5 |
| 1957 | 5 |
| 1959 | 5 |
| 1960 | 6 |
| 1962 | 5 |
| 1963 | 5 |
| 1977 | 5 |
| 1978 | 5 |
| 1979 | 8 |
| 1980 | 7 |
| 1981 | 8 |
| 1982 | 9 |
| 1983 | 9 |
| 1984 | 8 |
| 1985 | 20 |
| 1986 | 7 |
| 1987 | 8 |
| 1988 | 11 |
| 1989 | 5 |
| 1990 | 7 |
| 1991 | 5 |
| 1992 | 8 |
| 1993 | 11 |
| 1994 | 6 |
| 1996 | 5 |
| 1998 | 5 |
| 1999 | 8 |
| 2000 | 5 |
| 2005 | 7 |
| 2009 | 6 |
| 2010 | 6 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 31 years between 1955–2010. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Joseph Rothb. 1894ATAustrian novelist and journalist (1894–1939)
- Klaus Rothb. 1925GBBritish mathematician (1925–2015)
- Ann Rothb. 1931USAmerican costume designer
- Philip Rothb. 1933USAmerican novelist (1933–2018)
- Alvin E. Rothb. 1951USAmerican economist, professor
- Cecilia Rothb. 1956ARArgentine actress
- Tim Rothb. 1961GBBritish actor
- Joanna Rothb. 1965GBScottish actress
- Eli Rothb. 1972USAmerican filmmaker and actor
- Veronica Rothb. 1988USAmerican author
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence●
Attested in 55 sources across 31 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 58K | #574 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 57K | #527 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 56K | #583 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 11K | #23 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 3K | #3,363 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 2.8K | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 2.3K | #459 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 1.7K | #2,316 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 797 | — |
| FI Finland | DVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register) | — | 680 | — |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 656 | #1,933 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Noms de famille (family names) | — | 623 | #2,369 |
Reference works 5
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 144 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Roth?
- We estimate roughly 2.6 million people bear Roth (counting its spellings and scripts) across 15 countries in our records.
- In which country does Roth have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 1.3 million people bear Roth in Brazil, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled luca.
- Where is Roth most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Roth is densest in the Czechia — about 1 in 52 people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How common is Roth compared with other names?
- In Slovenia, Roth is the 10th most common given name of 11,759 given names recorded there.
- What does the name Roth mean?
- Recorded meaning: (i) person who lives in a woodland clearing; (ii) medieval German/Jewish nickname for a red-haired person; (iii) from Germanic names with hrod ‘fame’.
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Roth” — the 10th most common given name in Slovenia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.