About the Royo Surname

Royo is a familiar spelling of the Spanish name Rojo. Read literally, Royo points to “Red-haired”.

Arms associated with the name

Arms linked to Rojo and its spellings were granted to individual families; our heraldry team traces which line they belonged to.

Royo and Rojo

Records show Royo as one of the forms Rojo took over time. Spellings drifted because names were written down by ear in parish books, tax rolls and passenger lists.

About 294 people in the United States were recorded as Royo in 2010, placing it 67,126 on the national list. 68% of them identified as Hispanic or Latino. From 1891 to 2000, 983 births in France were registered under Royo. For the full story, order the Royo surname pack.