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    The surname Criner

    A surname, carried by 2,222 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex C656

    Criner: #13,627 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Criner #13,627, 2,222 people Criner: #13,627 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Criner #13,627, 2,222 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Criner is more common than 91.6% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 2,222 people named Criner in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 138,949 Americans. That is up 5.0% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,117.

    #13,627
    rank among US surnames
    2,222
    people in 2010
    0.8
    per 100,000 Americans
    +5%
    change since 2000 (was #13,226)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #13,622Wilmer2,224138,824
    #13,625Gauvin2,223138,887
    #13,627Shum2,222138,949

    Who is named Criner

    Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

    71% of people named Criner identified as white (not Hispanic), 21% as Black (not Hispanic) and 3.6% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 71%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 21%
    • Two or more races 3.6%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.8%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.9%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Criner

    Criner has the Soundex code C656, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code C656.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Criner?
    2,222 people in the United States had the surname Criner in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 138,949 Americans. It ranked 13,627th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Criner?
    In the 2010 Census, 71% of people named Criner identified as white (not Hispanic), and 21% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Criner getting more or less common?
    More common. 2,117 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,222 in 2010, up 5.0%.