Roller
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: from ME rolle / OFR rolle, roolle, roulle ‘roll, piece of parchment’; probably a maker or seller of parchment rolls; first attested John le Rollere 1274 Wak (Y)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 18 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/ˈɹoʊlɚ/(recorded in a dictionary) English · from Wiktionary
Roller is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 21K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 42K
- CZCzechia1 in 45K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 358 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 21K (inferred from the name graph)
7,894 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)from ME rolle / OFR rolle, roolle, roulle ‘roll, piece of parchment’; probably a maker or seller of parchment rolls; first attested John le Rollere 1274 Wak (Y)
Cited for this meaning 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
How Roller is read
(measured from records)Roller is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English79%
from ME rolle / OFR rolle, roolle, roulle ‘roll, piece of parchment’; probably a maker or seller of parchment rolls; first attested John le Rollere 1274 Wak (Y)
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
Anything that rolls.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- German7.5%
'wheelwright' or 'roll carriage man'
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Roller 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 | 7,894 | 1 in 42K | 8.1K | Roller | 358 |
| DE Germany | ≈4,000 est. | ≈1 in 21K | — | Roller | 127 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 64K | 67 | Roller | 62 |
| CA Canada | ≈820 est. | ≈1 in 50K | — | Roller | 61 |
| AU Australia | ≈380 est. | ≈1 in 71K | — | Roller | 48 |
| CZ Czechia | 240 | 1 in 45K | 240 | — | 1 |
| SG Singapore | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 50K | — | Roller | 2 |
7,894 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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 — Surname Frequency 2000; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); MVČR — living population register 2017. 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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Roller is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Hungarian, kick scooter, push scooter, scooter (a small platform with two wheels that is propelled by a rider pushing off the ground)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swedish, a cylindrical, rolling tool for applying paint
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Portuguese, roller skate (a boot with small wheels)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Heinrich Rollerb. 1839DEGerman author, inventor of the Roller shorthand system (1839–1916)
- Alfred Rollerb. 1864ATAustrian painter, graphic designer, and set designer (1864-1935)
- Ben Rollerb. 1876USAmerican football player, professional wrestler and physician (1876-1933)
- Mileva Rollerb. 1886ATAustrian painter (1886-1949)
- Mihail Rollerb. 1908ROCommunist activist, historian and propagandist (1908-1958)
- A. Clyde Rollerb. 1914USAmerican conductor (1914–2005)
- Pascal Rollerb. 1976DEGerman basketball player (born 1976)
- Florian Rollerb. 1992DEGerman rower
- Philip Rollerb. 1994DEGerman association football player
- Matt Rollerb. 1996USAmerican screenwriter and producer
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)30 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 8.1K | #4,028 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 7.9K | #4,492 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 7.3K | #4,698 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 240 | #7,013 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 240 | #5,081 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 67 | #42,509 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 6
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- 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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Roller mean, and where does it come from?
- from ME rolle / OFR rolle, roolle, roulle ‘roll, piece of parchment’; probably a maker or seller of parchment rolls; first attested John le Rollere 1274 Wak (Y) Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- What are other forms of the name Roller?
- In the etymology graph, Macadam is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Roller?
- In English /ˈɹoʊlɚ/ (Wiktionary).
- In which country does Roller have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 7.9 thousand people named Roller, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled roller.
- How common is the name Roller?
- In the United States, the national register counted 7,894 people named Roller in 2010, about 1 in 42 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/rollerThe 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, “Roller”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.