Roh
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: Initialism of Ring of Honor: a US media and entertainment company known for professional wrestling
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈɹoʊ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Roh is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- KRSouth Korea≈1 in 30K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 181K
- KPNorth Korea≈1 in 7.5K
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 262 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 7.5K (inferred from the name graph)
≈9,100 people, est.
Highest-authority source
North Korea, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Roh Tae-woo, South Korean president (1988–1993).
Sources 1
- Korea - A Historical and Cultural Dictionary
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
How Roh is read(measured from records)
Roh is one spelling over 4 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.
- English48%
Initialism of Ring of Honor: a US media and entertainment company known for professional wrestling.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Korean19%
Roh Tae-woo, South Korean president (1988–1993).
as a nameKorea - A Historical and Cultural Dictionary
- Spanish8.1%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Roh in Spanish.
- Arabic6.0%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Roh in Arabic.
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Roh 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈9,100 est. | ≈1 in 153K | — | Roh | 14 |
| KP North Korea | #526 | ≈3,400 est. | ≈1 in 7.5K | — | Roh | 14 |
| US United States | — | 1,833 | 1 in 181K | 1.9K | Roh | 262 |
| KR South Korea | #130 | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 30K | — | Roh | 138 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 632 | 1 in 13K | 632 | Roh | 23 |
| CZ Czechia | — | 146 | 1 in 73K | 146 | — | — |
| IS Iceland | — | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 111K | 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); MVČR — living population register 2017; Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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)
Roh is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, raw (uncooked)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Czech, horn (a hard growth of keratin that protrudes from the top of the head of certain animals)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Romansh.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In bts, to come; to attend
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)
- Roh Tae-woob. 1932KRPresident of South Korea from 1988 to 1993
- No Kum-sokb. 1932KPnot in their usual nameNorth Korean Air Force officer (1932–2022)
- Roh Moo-hyunb. 1946KR16th President of the Republic of Korea (1946–2009)
- Roh Hoe-chanb. 1956KRPresident of New Progressive Party (1956-2018)
- Roh Soh-yeongb. 1961KRSouth Korean business executive
- Noh Hong-chulb. 1979KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean entertainer
- Noh Seon-yeongb. 1989KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean speed skater
- Roh Jae-wonb. 1993KRSouth Korean actor (born 1993)
- Noh Jong-hyunb. 1993KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actor
- Roh Jeong-euib. 2001KRSouth Korean actress (born 2001)
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)
Attested in 30 sources across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.9K | #14,704 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.8K | #15,871 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.3K | #19,642 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 632 | #2,010 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 146 | #11,667 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 144 | #6,529 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- 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
- Where does the name Roh come from?
- Roh Tae-woo, South Korean president (1988–1993). Recorded by Korea - A Historical and Cultural Dictionary.
- How do you pronounce Roh?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈɹoʊ/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Roh mean?
- In English, Initialism of Ring of Honor: a US media and entertainment company known for professional wrestling.
- What are other forms of the name Roh?
- In the etymology graph, Rohling is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Roh have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 9.1 thousand people named Roh in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled roh.
- How common is the name Roh?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,833 people named Roh in 2010, about 1 in 181 thousand residents.
- How common is Roh compared with other names?
- In South Korea, Roh is the 130th most common surname of 14,133 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/rohThe 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, “Roh” — the 130th most common surname in South Korea. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.