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The roe Surname

roe Name Meaning and History

  1. English: nickname for a timid person, from Middle English ro ‘roe’; this is a midland and southern form of Ray 2.
  2. Norwegian: habitational name from any of several farmsteads named Roe or Røe, from Old Norse ruð ‘clearing’.
  3. English name adopted by bearers of French Baillargeon.
  4. Korean: variant of No.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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The roe name in History

A unique volume of fascinating facts, statistics and commentary following the roe family name as far back in history as possible.

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Distribution of roe Families in the US in 1920
Number of roe families
 270-537
 91-269		 1-90
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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