Popularity of the last name by country

United Kingdom

• Leicestershire (8,783)
• Fifeshire (3,269)
• Strathclyde (3,208)
• Lothian (2,804)
• Tayside (2,375)
• North Yorkshire (1,800)
• London (1,774)
• Grampian (1,694)
• Powys (1,612)
• Kent (1,198)
• Dyfed (979)
• Shropshire (937)
• Derbyshire (857)
• Warwickshire (839)
• Cornwall (672)
• Devon (654)
• Somerset (652)
• Lincolnshire (639)
• Lancashire (621)
• Gloucestershire (512)
• Cambridgeshire (478)
• Essex (426)
• Norfolk (392)
• Northumberland (390)
• Cumbria (353)
• Wiltshire (333)
• Hampshire (325)
• Dorset (317)
• Gwent (290)
• Surrey (284)
• Herefordshire and Worcester (257)
• County Durham (256)
• Suffolk (252)
• Clwyd (233)
• Cheshire (232)
• Buckinghamshire (214)
• Gwynedd (201)
• Central (188)
• Hertfordshire (171)
• Northamptonshire (169)
• Mid Glamorgan (141)
• Staffordshire (128)
• Bedfordshire (108)
• Berkshire (91)
• Nottinghamshire (83)
• Oxfordshire (81)
• Borders (71)
• East Sussex (58)
• West Yorkshire (52)
• South Glamorgan (46)
• Merseyside (43)
• West Glamorgan (35)
• Guernsey (32)
• Dumfries and Galloway (30)
• West Sussex (29)
• Cleveland (25)
• Avon (23)
• Londonderry (21)
• South Yorkshire (21)
• Isle of Man (17)

All countries

• France (1,503,244)
• United Kingdom (47,580)
• Canada (33,120)
• Belgium (20,933)
• Spain (16,094)
• United States (11,400)
• Austria (4,503)
• Germany (3,903)
• Switzerland (3,178)
• Algeria (3,076)
• Netherlands (1,982)
• Italy (1,648)
• Réunion (1,122)
• Albania (889)
• Unknown country (711)
• New Zealand (625)
• Ireland (615)
• Martinique (477)
• Australia (471)
• Sweden (463)
• Hungary (357)
• Luxembourg (325)
• Morocco (296)
• Denmark (263)
• Guadeloupe (251)
• Viet Nam (245)
• French Guiana (205)
• Madagascar (200)
• Estonia (192)
• New Caledonia (188)
• Slovakia (Slovak Republic) (138)
• Tunisia (129)
• Mauritius (122)
• Norway (105)
• India (96)
• Greece (94)
• Czech republic (81)
• Mexico (81)
• Russian Federation (75)
• Palestine (73)

Origine of last name

ROGER : Scottish English North German French Walloon Catalan and West Indian (mainly Haiti): from a personal name composed of the ancient Germanic elements hrōd ‘renown’ +gār gēr ‘spear lance’ which was introduced into England by the Normans in the form Rog(i)er and was reinforced by the Old Norse cognate Hróthgeirr.