Where Does The Last Name Roates Come From? ^{nationality or country of origin}

The surname Roates occurs more in Romania more than any other country or territory. It may also appear in the variant forms: Roateș. Click here for further possible spellings of this last name.

How Common Is The Last Name Roates? ^{popularity and diffusion}

This surname is the 1,943,350^th most frequent last name throughout the world, held by approximately 1 in 79,212,456 people. The last name Roates occurs predominantly in Europe, where 88 percent of Roates reside; 87 percent reside in Eastern Europe and 87 percent reside in Romanian Europe.

The surname Roates is most commonly held in Romania, where it is borne by 80 people, or 1 in 250,973. In Romania it is most frequent in: Mehedinți County, where 99 percent live and Bucharest Municipality, where 1 percent live. Besides Romania Roates occurs in 3 countries. It also occurs in Australia, where 11 percent live and England, where 1 percent live.

Roates Family Population Trend ^{historical fluctuation}

The incidence of Roates has changed over time. In England the number of people bearing the Roates surname declined 50 percent between 1881 and 2014 and in The United States it declined 94 percent between 1880 and 2014.