How common is the surname Raker?

3,127 people in the United States had the surname Raker in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 98,735 Americans. It ranked 10,302nd of 162,253 surnames.

Is the surname Raker getting more or less common?

More common. 1,736 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,127 in 2010, up 80%.

The surname Raker

A surname, carried by 3,127 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). Raker is more common than 93.7% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 3,127 people named Raker in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 98,735 Americans. That is up 80% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,736.

#10,302

rank among US surnames

3,127

people in 2010

1.1

per 100,000 Americans

+80.1%

change since 2000 (was #15,485)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#10,297	Breese	3,130	98,641
#10,298	Myhre	3,129	98,672
#10,301	Massengale	3,128	98,704
#10,302	Brandes	3,127	98,735
#10,306	Elson	3,126	98,767
#10,310	Utterback	3,125	98,799

Who is named Raker

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

88% of people named Raker identified as white (not Hispanic), 7.2% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.0% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 88%
Black (not Hispanic) 7.2%
Two or more races 2.0%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.8%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.9%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.3%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Raker

Raker 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 Raker?: 3,127 people in the United States had the surname Raker in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 98,735 Americans. It ranked 10,302nd of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Raker?: In the 2010 Census, 88% of people named Raker identified as white (not Hispanic), and 7.2% as Black (not Hispanic).
Is the surname Raker getting more or less common?: More common. 1,736 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,127 in 2010, up 80%.