Rosh
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Rosh means 'Head' or 'Chief'; Rapha means 'Healed' or 'Giant'
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈɹɔʃ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Rosh is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 1.1M(measured from records)
- ILIsrael≈1 in 125K
- CACanada≈1 in 780K
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)
- Sources
- 145 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 125K (inferred from the name graph)
294 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Israel, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Rosh means 'Head' or 'Chief'; Rapha means 'Healed' or 'Giant'.
Sources 1
- Biblical Names Compiled Database
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Rosh 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 | 294 | 1 in 1.1M | 331 | Rosh | 145 |
| IL Israel | ≈69 est. | ≈1 in 125K | — | Rosh | 17 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈52 est. | ≈1 in 1.3M | listed | Rosh | 67 |
| CA Canada | ≈48 est. | ≈1 in 780K | 1 | Rosh | 24 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈47 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | — | Rosh | 15 |
| NO Norway | ≈6 est. | ≈1 in 901K | 20 | — | 2 |
294 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 2020; the gb-nisra-baby-names-ni register; Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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)
Rosh 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 English, Biblical name
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In woe, night, darkness; be dark, black, obscure
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In gv, to reach, arrive
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In crg, rock
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)
- Lea Roshb. 1936DEGerman television journalist
- Israel Roshb. 1988ILIsraeli footballer
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 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 90 | #49,963 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 32 | #49,963 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 20 | #19,322 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1980 | 5 | — |
| CA Canada | Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender | 2024 | 1 | #2,319 |
| CA Canada | Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender | 2022 | 1 | #2,090 |
| GB United Kingdom | NISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present) | 2017 | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Rosh mean, and where does it come from?
- Rosh means 'Head' or 'Chief'; Rapha means 'Healed' or 'Giant'. Recorded by Biblical Names Compiled Database.
- How do you pronounce Rosh?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈɹɔʃ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Rosh have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 294 people named Rosh, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled rosh.
- How common is the name Rosh?
- In the United States, the national register counted 294 people named Rosh in 2010, about 1 in 1.1 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/roshThe 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, “Rosh”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.