De La Rosa Surname Origin, Meaning & Last Name History

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de La Rosa Surname

2,480th Most Commonsurname in the World

Approximately 222,812 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in: MexicoHighest density in: Dominican Republic

de La Rosa Surname Definition:

Dweller where roses grew; or at the sign of the rose.

"Rosa" is a Basque place name that refers to holly. It is also the latin word for rose.

Rosa, Castilian name from region of Laredo (Santander). One branch in Andalusía.

See Rosa.

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de La Rosa Surname Distribution Map

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• 2014
• 1880

Sort resultsIncidence (high to low)Incidence (low to high)Alphabetic A-ZAlphabetic Z-ARank (high to low)Rank (low to high)

Place	Incidence	Frequency	Rank in Area
Mexico	120,427	1:1,031	163
Dominican Republic	50,580	1:206	38
Spain	16,525	1:2,829	332
Colombia	9,357	1:5,106	756
Guatemala	7,679	1:2,094	339
Cuba	6,553	1:1,758	263
Venezuela	5,760	1:5,244	649
United States	5,296	1:68,440	7,958
Philippines	4,140	1:24,454	3,255
Ecuador	2,927	1:5,434	911
Argentina	2,533	1:16,875	1,467
Panama	2,205	1:1,774	284
Peru	1,931	1:16,460	2,054
Chile	650	1:27,102	1,555
Uruguay	370	1:9,275	1,040
Puerto Rico	362	1:9,807	501
El Salvador	320	1:19,825	921
France	305	1:217,779	33,834
South Africa	235	1:230,543	23,873
Brazil	228	1:938,923	33,517
Saudi Arabia	199	1:155,054	22,057
Canada	154	1:239,257	22,811
Trinidad and Tobago	146	1:9,342	1,316
Belize	138	1:2,576	542
Australia	122	1:221,276	21,136
England	75	1:742,907	41,196
Switzerland	40	1:205,323	17,881
Netherlands	40	1:422,179	43,576
Gibraltar	35	1:970	205
Costa Rica	32	1:149,377	2,141
Thailand	27	1:2,616,235	275,741
Andorra	26	1:3,225	636
Germany	26	1:3,096,364	143,912
Honduras	16	1:551,028	3,526
Italy	14	1:4,368,335	106,343
Ireland	14	1:336,353	12,021
Singapore	13	1:423,669	18,211
Sweden	11	1:895,160	66,831
Paraguay	11	1:657,886	7,708
Zimbabwe	11	1:1,403,476	76,064
Iceland	10	1:38,009	2,599
Aruba	9	1:11,497	1,511
Belgium	9	1:1,277,405	87,318
Qatar	9	1:262,000	30,726
Austria	8	1:1,064,429	75,134
Dominica	6	1:12,648	426
Indonesia	5	1:26,449,839	597,308
Bermuda	5	1:13,056	1,849
China	4	1:341,830,392	16,990
Bahrain	4	1:337,152	6,054
Bolivia	4	1:2,654,108	7,945
Kuwait	4	1:950,174	18,811
Scotland	4	1:1,338,454	35,497
East Timor	4	1:303,982	255
Israel	4	1:2,139,408	95,907
United Arab Emirates	2	1:4,581,136	93,443
South Korea	2	1:25,620,128	4,175
Afghanistan	2	1:16,076,592	43,178
New Zealand	2	1:2,264,162	49,210
Finland	2	1:2,748,351	72,663
India	2	1:383,532,691	1,645,216
Hungary	1	1:9,816,277	73,288
Algeria	1	1:38,631,551	130,422
Bangladesh	1	1:159,356,773	26,077
Wales	1	1:3,094,532	44,023
Botswana	1	1:2,186,929	30,250
Cayman Islands	1	1:63,893	2,384
United States Virgin Islands	1	1:110,375	6,934
Cook Islands	1	1:18,179	1,485
Croatia	1	1:4,228,604	99,289
Tuvalu	1	1:11,188	103
Togo	1	1:7,247,768	12,049
Greece	1	1:11,079,790	145,225
Guam	1	1:160,121	4,893
Haiti	1	1:10,683,907	24,607
Norway	1	1:5,142,286	129,201
Iraq	1	1:35,021,654	31,813
Somalia	1	1:13,452,061	9,224
Ivory Coast	1	1:23,071,232	76,679
Kazakhstan	1	1:17,682,496	204,010
Malaysia	1	1:29,494,225	409,885
Saint Kitts and Nevis	1	1:55,199	1,294
Russia	1	1:144,123,056	881,408
Mauritius	1	1:1,293,417	16,552
Morocco	1	1:34,476,099	111,471
Nicaragua	1	1:6,021,090	8,768
Northern Mariana Islands	1	1:54,580	1,498

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Place	Incidence	Frequency	Rank in Area
United States	16	1:3,138,668	142,671

de La Rosa (604) may also be a first name.

de La Rosa Surname Meaning

From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history

Dweller where roses grew; or at the sign of the rose.

"Rosa" is a Basque place name that refers to holly. It is also the latin word for rose.

Rosa, Castilian name from region of Laredo (Santander). One branch in Andalusía.

See Rosa.

— Spanish Surnames In The Southwestern United States (1978) by Richard Donovon Woods

User-submitted Reference

(Southern Italian) From rosa, meaning 'rose', a topographic name for someone living by a prominent rose bush.

(Spanish) Habitational name from any of the places called La Rosa in southern Spain, or short form of the surname de la Rosa.

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Meaning: 'from the rose'.

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de La Rosa Demographics

Average de La Rosa Salary inUnited States

$54,209 USD

Per year

Rank: 300,635 of 1,180,305Percentage of all salaries earned by bearers:0.000951524Rank: 11,497 of 1,181,369Percentage of national average salary:125.63%Sample size: 1,497 (2014)

Average Salary inUnited States

$43,149 USD

Per year

Per month: $3,596 USDPer week: $799 USDPer day: $118 USD

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de La Rosa Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name de La Rosa Come From? nationality or country of origin

de La Rosa occurs more in Mexico more than any other country or territory. It may be rendered in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of this name click here.

How Common Is The Last Name de La Rosa? popularity and diffusion

de La Rosa is the 2,480th most common last name globally. It is borne by around 1 in 32,707 people. This surname occurs predominantly in The Americas, where 98 percent of de La Rosa are found; 56 percent are found in North America and 54 percent are found in Hispano-North America. It is also the 340,092nd most widely held forename worldwide It is held by 604 people.

This last name is most commonly held in Mexico, where it is borne by 120,427 people, or 1 in 1,031. In Mexico it is primarily concentrated in: México, where 12 percent reside, Nuevo León, where 11 percent reside and Mexico City, where 9 percent reside. Excluding Mexico this surname occurs in 86 countries. It also occurs in The Dominican Republic, where 23 percent reside and Spain, where 7 percent reside.

de La Rosa Family Population Trend historical fluctuation

The frequency of de La Rosa has changed over time. In The United States the number of people carrying the de La Rosa last name expanded 33,100 percent between 1880 and 2014.

de La Rosa Last Name Statistics demography

The amount de La Rosa earn in different countries varies greatly. In Italy they earn 68.17% less than the national average, earning €9,560 per year; in Peru they earn 6.75% more than the national average, earning S/. 20,693 per year; in South Africa they earn 78.9% more than the national average, earning R 425,136 per year; in Colombia they earn 11.71% less than the national average, earning $20,044,600 COP per year; in United States they earn 25.63% more than the national average, earning $54,209 USD per year and in Canada they earn 2.42% less than the national average, earning $48,482 CAD per year.

Phonetically Similar Names

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Surname	Similarity	Worldwide Incidence	Prevalency
de La Rossa	95	22	/
de La Rosas	95	20	/
de las Rosa	95	9	/
de La Rosaa	95	4	/
de La Rrosa	95	1	/
de La Roxsa	95	1	/
de las Rosas	91	161	/
de La Roca	90	2,859	/
de La Roza	90	208	/
de La Roja	90	73	/
de La Rose	90	28	/
de La Roso	90	4	/
de La Rosi	90	2	/
de La Rocha	86	3,826	/
de La Rosée	86	15	/
de La Rojas	86	1	/
de Los Rosa	86	1	/
de La Rozas	86	1	/
de La Rosee	86	1	/
de La Roussi	82	4	/
de La Rousse	82	2	/
de-La-Rosa	80	15,254	/
de La Reza	80	23	/
de La Rojo	80	1	/
de La Rozi	80	1	/
de La Raza	80	1	/
de La Roche	76	722	/
de Los Resa	76	1	/
de La Rouco	76	1	/
De La Rochet	73	1	/
De-La-Rocha	67	1	/

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