How common is the surname Rager?

5,287 people in the United States had the surname Rager in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 58,397 Americans. It ranked 6,425th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Rager?

In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Rager identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Rager getting more or less common?

More common. 5,031 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 5,287 in 2010, up 5.1%.

The surname Rager

A surname, carried by 5,287 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex R260

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Rager is more common than 96% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 5,287 people named Rager in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 58,397 Americans. That is up 5.1% since 2000, when the Census counted 5,031.

#6,425

rank among US surnames

5,287

people in 2010

1.8

per 100,000 Americans

+5.1%

change since 2000 (was #6,253)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#6,416	Mick	5,299	58,265
#6,417	Woolard	5,296	58,298
#6,418	Reber	5,295	58,309
#6,420	Peres	5,294	58,320
#6,421	Gillett	5,293	58,331
#6,422	Gadson	5,291	58,353
#6,423	Lampe	5,290	58,364

Who is named Rager

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

95% of people named Rager identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.6% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 95%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.6%
Two or more races 1.6%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.6%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Rager

Rager has the Soundex code R260, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code R260.

Questions

How common is the surname Rager?: 5,287 people in the United States had the surname Rager in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 58,397 Americans. It ranked 6,425th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Rager?: In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Rager identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Rager getting more or less common?: More common. 5,031 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 5,287 in 2010, up 5.1%.