Rof
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ɾof/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Rof is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country.
- ESSpain1 in 544K(measured from records)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 2.8M
- INIndia1 in 265M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Spain (measured from records)
- Sources
- 36 (measured from records)
- 1 in 544K (inferred from the name graph)
92 people
Highest-authority source
Spain
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Rof 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 | 92 | 1 in 544K | 92 | Rof | 36 |
| IN India | 5 | 1 in 265M | 5 | — | 2 |
| CH Switzerland | 3 | 1 in 2.8M | 3 | — | — |
| FR France | — | — | — | Rof | 35 |
| US United States | — | — | — | Rof | 8 |
| MX Mexico | — | — | — | Rof | 8 |
| CO Colombia | — | — | — | Rof | 3 |
92 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); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)
Rof is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In ang, vigorous, strong; valiant, brave, keen
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In enm, A roof (top layer of a building):
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Icelandic, break, severance, rupture
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Afrikaans, rough, crude, uneven
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Dutch, rough, unrefined
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In bhw, fathom
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
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)
- Juan Rof Codinab. 1874ESSpanish scientist (1874-1967)
- Xoán Rof Carballob. 1905ESSpanish physician (1905-1994)
- Jesús Sancho Rofb. 1940ESSpanish politician and university professor
- Remus RofRORomanian politician from Dognecea, Caraș-Severin County
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 9 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 92 | #29,096 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 92 | #29,046 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 11 | #90,410 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 5 | #190,479 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 3 | #154,370 |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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
- How do you pronounce Rof?
- A machine transcription gives /ɾof/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Rof have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 92 people named Rof, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled rof.
- Where is Rof most common?
- Rof is densest in Spain, where the national register counts about 1 in 544 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Rof?
- In Spain, the national register counted 92 people named Rof, about 1 in 544 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Rof?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/rofThe 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, “Rof”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.