How common is the surname Rake?

1,773 people in the United States had the surname Rake in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 174,137 Americans. It ranked 16,265th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Rake?

In the 2010 Census, 91% of people named Rake identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Rake getting more or less common?

More common. 1,443 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,773 in 2010, up 23%.

The surname Rake

A surname, carried by 1,773 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex R200

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Rake is more common than 90% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,773 people named Rake in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 174,137 Americans. That is up 23% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,443.

#16,265

rank among US surnames

1,773

people in 2010

0.6

per 100,000 Americans

+22.9%

change since 2000 (was #17,884)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#16,261	Kinkead	1,774	174,039
#16,265	Rake	1,773	174,137
#16,273	Layden	1,772	174,236

Who is named Rake

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

91% of people named Rake identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 2.5% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 91%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.8%
Two or more races 2.5%
Asian and Pacific Islander 1.9%
Black (not Hispanic) 1.2%
American Indian and Alaska Native 1.0%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Variant spellings

Raikes

Surnames that sound like Rake

Rake has the Soundex code R200, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code R200.

Questions

How common is the surname Rake?: 1,773 people in the United States had the surname Rake in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 174,137 Americans. It ranked 16,265th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Rake?: In the 2010 Census, 91% of people named Rake identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Rake getting more or less common?: More common. 1,443 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,773 in 2010, up 23%.
What are other spellings of Rake?: Raikes.