Roske
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
Roske is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from German Roske.
- DEGermany≈1 in 61K(inferred from the name graph)
- PLPoland1 in 164Kas Roeske
- USUnited States1 in 358Kas Roeske
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Roske itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 187 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 13K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,400 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Barbados, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Roske in other scripts: Latin
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Roeske in US United States, GB United Kingdom, CA Canada and 2 more and Röske in DE Germany.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Borrowed from German Roske.
Cited for this meaning 1
Where the surname Roske is found
(measured from records)Roske counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | — | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 61K | — | Röske | 75 |
| US United States | — | 928as Roeske | 1 in 358K | 928 | Roeske | 187 |
| PL Poland | — | 234as Roeske | 1 in 164K | 128 | Roske | 2 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 434K | 7 | Roeske | 19 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 362K | — | Roeske | 33 |
| IE Ireland | — | ≈26 est. | ≈1 in 211K | — | Roeske | 1 |
| BB Barbados | #926 | ≈21 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Roske | 1 |
| AG Antigua & Barbuda | — | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 34K | — | Roeske | 1 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Brent Roskeb. 1901USAmerican film director
- Norbert Roskeb. 1937DEGerman politician
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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)10 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Roske mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from German Roske. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Roske?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.4 thousand people named Roske in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled röske. After it come United States, Poland, United Kingdom and Canada; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Roske?
- In the United States, the national register counted 928 people named Roeske in 2010, about 1 in 358 thousand residents.
- How common is Roske compared with other names?
- In Barbados, Roske is the 926th most common surname of 11,500 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Roske?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/roskeThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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, “Roske” — the 926th most common surname in Barbados. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.