Roș
surname · Latin script
Roș is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country: 21,196 people, counted by INE. Recorded meaning: Inherited from Latin russus (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rewdʰ-), or less likely from Latin roseus. Compare Aromanian rosh. Roș is also written Ŕ៉ōș in Khmer.
- KHCambodia≈1 in 900few records(inferred from the name graph)
- ESSpain1 in 2.4K
- NLNetherlands1 in 4.9K
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.
- Spain (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 184 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 897 (inferred from the name graph)
21,196 people
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Cambodia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Ros in ES Spain, NL Netherlands, IT Italy and 4 more.
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)- Latinrussusultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rewdʰ-(measured from records)
- Latinroseus(measured from records)
Inherited from Latin russus (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rewdʰ-), or less likely from Latin roseus. Compare Aromanian rosh.
Cited for this meaning 1
Attested across 24 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Roș is found
(measured from records)Roș 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | #165 | 21,196 | 1 in 2.4K | 21K | Ros | 177 |
| KH Cambodia | — | ≈20,000 est. | ≈1 in 897 | — | Ros | 45 |
| FR France | — | ≈4,000 est. | ≈1 in 17K | 402 | Ros | 3 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈3,900 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Ros | 90 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 3,499 | 1 in 4.9K | 3.5K | Ros | 26 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈2,300 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Ros | 22 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 236 | 1 in 14K | 236 | Ros | 21 |
21,196 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Roș mean, and where does it come from?
- Inherited from Latin russus (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rewdʰ-), or less likely from Latin roseus. Compare Aromanian rosh. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Roș?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 21 thousand people named Roș, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ros. After it come Cambodia, France, Italy and Netherlands; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Roș?
- In Spain, the national register counted 21,196 people named Roș, about 1 in 2.4 thousand residents.
- How common is Roș compared with other names?
- In Spain, Roș is the 165th most common surname of 395,154 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ro%C8%99The 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, “Roș” — ranked 255th in Spain (INE). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.