Roxas
surname · Latin script
Meaning: a surname, a variant of Rojas mostly found in the Philippines
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɹɒksəs/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Roxas is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country, where it is the 69th most common surname.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 1.8K(inferred from the name graph)
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 8.2K
- USUnited States1 in 195K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Roxas itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 244 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.8K (inferred from the name graph)
≈62,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Philippines, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
a surname, a variant of Rojas mostly found in the Philippines
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Roxas 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | #69 | ≈62,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.8K | — | Roxas | 154 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈33,000 est. | ≈1 in 8.2K | — | Roxas | 19 |
| ES Spain | — | 3,428as Rozas | 1 in 15K | 3.4K | Roxas | 21 |
| AR Argentina | — | 1,850as Rozas | 1 in 25K | 1.9K | — | 8 |
| US United States | — | 1,706 | 1 in 195K | 2K | Roxas | 244 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | #858 | ≈600 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Roxas | 33 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 194as Rozas | 1 in 17K | 194 | — | — |
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; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)
Roxas is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Portuguese, feminine plural of roxo
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Filipino, Roxas (a city, the provincial capital of Capiz, Western Visayas, Philippines; former name: Capiz)
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)
- Felipe Roxasb. 1840PHFilipino painter (1840-1899)
- Manuel Roxasb. 1892PHPresident of the Philippines from 1946 to 1948
- Andrés Sorianob. 1898PHnot in their usual nameFilipino Spanish businessman
- Gerry M. Roxasb. 1924PHFilipino politician (1924-1982)
- Aida Roxasb. 1942PHactor
- Roberto Roxasb. 1946PHcyclist
- Mar Roxasb. 1957PHSenator of the Republic of The Philippines
- Jana Roxasb. 1990PHFilipino actress
- Gerardo Roxas y ArroyoPHFilipino servant during the Spanish Colonial Era
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 25 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2K | #14,475 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.7K | #16,755 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.2K | #20,528 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 62 | #38,394 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 62 | #38,213 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
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 Roxas mean, and where does it come from?
- a surname, a variant of Rojas mostly found in the Philippines Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Roxas?
- A machine transcription gives /ɹɒksəs/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Roxas have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 62 thousand people named Roxas in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled roxas.
- How common is the name Roxas?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,706 people named Roxas in 2010, about 1 in 195 thousand residents.
- How common is Roxas compared with other names?
- In the Philippines, Roxas is the 69th most common surname of 876,464 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/roxasThe 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, “Roxas” — the 69th most common surname in Philippines. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.