How common is the surname Raber?

7,261 people in the United States had the surname Raber in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 42,521 Americans. It ranked 4,854th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Raber?

In the 2010 Census, 97% of people named Raber identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Raber getting more or less common?

More common. 5,566 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 7,261 in 2010, up 31%.

The surname Raber

A surname, carried by 7,261 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex R160

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Raber is more common than 97% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 7,261 people named Raber in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 42,521 Americans. That is up 31% since 2000, when the Census counted 5,566.

#4,854

rank among US surnames

7,261

people in 2010

2.5

per 100,000 Americans

+30.5%

change since 2000 (was #5,711)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#4,850	Hornsby	7,267	42,486
#4,852	McKenney	7,265	42,498
#4,853	Cupp	7,263	42,509
#4,854	Christ	7,261	42,521

Who is named Raber

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

97% of people named Raber identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 97%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.4%
Two or more races 0.9%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.3%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.2%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.1%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Raber

Raber has the Soundex code R160, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code R160.

Questions

How common is the surname Raber?: 7,261 people in the United States had the surname Raber in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 42,521 Americans. It ranked 4,854th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Raber?: In the 2010 Census, 97% of people named Raber identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Raber getting more or less common?: More common. 5,566 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 7,261 in 2010, up 31%.