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The surname Rancourt

A French surname, carried by 1,707 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex R526

Rancourt: #16,748 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Rancourt #16,748, 1,707 people Rancourt: #16,748 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Rancourt #16,748, 1,707 people
Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Rancourt is more common than 89.7% of them.

Origin

French origin

Borrowed from French Rancourt.

One of 791 French surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,707 people named Rancourt in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 180,870 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 1,708.

#16,748
rank among US surnames
1,707
people in 2010
0.6
per 100,000 Americans
-0.1%
change since 2000 (was #15,704)
RankSurnamePeople1 in
#16,743Petti1,708180,764
#16,748Bruss1,707180,870
#16,755Pandey1,706180,976

Who is named Rancourt

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

96% of people named Rancourt identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.2% as two or more races and 1.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

  • White (not Hispanic) 96%
  • Two or more races 1.2%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.1%
  • Black (not Hispanic) 0.8%
The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American are not shown.

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

Variant spellings

  • Rancour

Rancourt has the Soundex code R526, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code R526.

Other French surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Rancourt come from?
Borrowed from French Rancourt.
How common is the surname Rancourt?
1,707 people in the United States had the surname Rancourt in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 180,870 Americans. It ranked 16,748th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Rancourt?
In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Rancourt identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.2% as two or more races.
Is the surname Rancourt getting more or less common?
Less common. 1,708 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,707 in 2010, down 0.1%.
What are other spellings of Rancourt?
Rancour.