What Is The Origin Of The Last Names Kallin And Rogers?

Rogers is the 54th most common last name in the USA (about 334,000 people have it). It's treated as English in origin, comes from the forename Roger: So "Rogers" would be for sons of a man named Roger. It's thought that Roger was a German first name, meaning "handy with a spear", that arrived in Britain with the conquest of 1066.

Kallin is usually either Swedish, Irish or German. It didn't occur on US Censuses much before the mid 1800s; there were still only about 10 families with this last name in the US in 1880 (see map). Almost half of the Kallin-surname immigrants came from German ports, the rest mostly from English and Irish ports (see pie chart).

In Swedish, Kallin translates loosely as "of a place" (not a specific place, really). In Irish or German it would be a evolution from other surnames, like Killian (Irish) or Kalman (German).

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