Roof Family History
Roof Name Meaning
English: variant of Rolfe.German: from
Ruffo, a short form of a personal name formed with
hrod ‘renown’, ‘victory’.Probably an Americanized
spelling of German Ruf(f).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Roof Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Roof families
 70 - 138  24 - 69 |
 1 - 23  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Roof families
|
10 - 17 4 - 9 |
1 - 3 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
| Sorry, we couldn't find geographic distribution information for the Roof last name |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Roof census records
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Roof Family Origin
Roof Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Roof
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from the Social Security Death Index (SSDI)
Roof Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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Roof Civil War Service Records
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