Roxas
surname · Latin script
Meaning: a surname, a variant of Rojas mostly found in the Philippines (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 15 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/ˈɾoː.hɐs/(recorded in a dictionary) English · from Wiktionary
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. Roxas is also written โรซาส in Thai and 로하스 in Korean (Hangul).
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 1.5K(inferred from the name graph)
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 19K
- AEUnited Arab Emirates≈1 in 20Kfew records
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. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 244 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.5K (inferred from the name graph)
≈77,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Philippines, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Roxas in other scripts: Thai and Korean (Hangul)
(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.
How to pronounce Roxas
- English:/ˈɾoː.hɐs/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
- Spanish:/ˈro.xas/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)a surname, a variant of Rojas mostly found in the Philippines
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Roxas is found
(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 | ≈77,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | — | Roxas | 154 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈15,000 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | 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 | ≈560 est. | ≈1 in 20K | — | 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)- Manuel Roxasb. 1892PHPresident of the Philippines from 1946 to 1948
- Gerry M. Roxasb. 1924PHFilipino politician (1924-1982)
- Mar Roxasb. 1957PHSenator of the Republic of The Philippines
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)25 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 15 countries.
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?
- It depends on the language: in English /ˈɾoː.hɐs/ (Wiktionary); in Spanish /ˈro.xas/ (Wiktionary).
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Roxas?
- Mondonomo estimates about 77 thousand people named Roxas in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled roxas. After it come Indonesia, Spain, Argentina and United States; the country table on this page ranks them.
- 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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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 the Philippines. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.