Roë
loc · Latin script
Roë is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Middle English rowe, rowne, roun, rawne, from Old English *hrogn (“spawn, fish eggs, roe”), from Proto-Germanic *hrugnaz, *hrugną (“spawn, roe”), from Proto-Indo-European *krek- (“(frog) spawn”)..
- IEIreland≈1 in 6.6K(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 7.8K
- AUAustralia≈1 in 11K
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 Roë 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 464 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 6.6K (inferred from the name graph)
53,159 named Roy, 2010
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Ireland, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Roe in US United States, GB United Kingdom, AU Australia and 4 more and Roy in IN India.
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)- Middle Englishrowe(measured from records)
- Old English*hrogn“spawn“spawn, fish eggs, roe”(measured from records)
- Proto-Germanic*hrugnaz“spawn“spawn, roe”(measured from records)
- Proto-Indo-European*krek-“(frog(measured from records)
From Middle English rowe, rowne, roun, rawne, from Old English *hrogn (“spawn, fish eggs, roe”), from Proto-Germanic *hrugnaz, *hrugną (“spawn, roe”), from Proto-Indo-European *krek- (“(frog) spawn”). Cognate with Dutch roge (“roe”), German Low German Rögen (“roe”), German Rogen (“roe”), Danish rogn, ravn (“roe”), Swedish rom (“roe”), Icelandic hrogn (“roe”), Lithuanian kurkulaĩ (“frog spawn”), Russian кряк (krjak, “frog spawn”).
Cited for this meaning 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
- Nordic Names
Attested across 26 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Roë 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 53,159as Roy | 1 in 6.3K | 176K | Roe | 464 |
| IN India | — | 37,509as Roy | 1 in 35K | 38K | Roy | 58 |
| GB United Kingdom | #719 | ≈8,400 est. | ≈1 in 7.8K | 11K | Roe | 208 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈4,000 est. | ≈1 in 20K | listed | Roe | 69 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈2,900 est. | ≈1 in 13K | 10 | Roe | 130 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈2,300 est. | ≈1 in 11K | 62 | Roe | 146 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 1,041as Roy | 1 in 8.1K | 1K | Roe | 19 |
| IE Ireland | #557 | ≈790 est. | ≈1 in 6.6K | — | Roe | 73 |
| NO Norway | — | 386 | 1 in 14K | 19K | — | 20 |
53,159 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010, counting the spelling roy. 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; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); NSW BDM — Popular baby names (1952–present); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Roë mean, and where does it come from?
- From Middle English rowe, rowne, roun, rawne, from Old English *hrogn (“spawn, fish eggs, roe”), from Proto-Germanic *hrugnaz, *hrugną (“spawn, roe”), from Proto-Indo-European *krek- (“(frog) spawn”).… Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and Wiktionary and 2 other sources.
- In which country does Roë have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 53 thousand people named Roy, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Roë?
- In Norway, the national register counted 386 people named Roë, about 1 in 14 thousand residents.
- How common is Roë compared with other names?
- In Ireland, Roë is the 557th most common surname of 73,729 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ro%C3%ABThe 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, “Roë” — the 557th most common surname in Ireland. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.