Given name & surname
Roth
“a red-haired man”
Roth is used as a given name and a surname. One German interpretation is “a red-haired man.”
Original GermanRothe
Meaning & origin
What it means
One German interpretation is “a red-haired man.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is German.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1955. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Roth through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 220
- 220 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1985
- 20 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 6 in 2010. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 20 in 1985. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 518 as a first name in 2020; 56,238 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Roth’s family of names
In German usage, Roth has a later derivative in ROT. Roth has a related form in Rothe. In German usage, Roth as a surname has a conventional equivalent in the Italian form ROSSI.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Roth has relatives in 6 languages. Lines run from its German roots to each of them.
Nicknames & forms 5
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 6
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
See also 1
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
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