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    The surname Rapier

    A surname, carried by 1,727 people in the United States.

    3 syllables Soundex R160

    Rapier: #16,601 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Rapier #16,601, 1,727 people Rapier: #16,601 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Rapier #16,601, 1,727 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Rapier is more common than 89.8% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,727 people named Rapier in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 178,776 Americans. That is up 14% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,510.

    #16,601
    rank among US surnames
    1,727
    people in 2010
    0.6
    per 100,000 Americans
    +14.4%
    change since 2000 (was #17,260)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #16,593Bruneau1,728178,672
    #16,601Rapier1,727178,776

    Who is named Rapier

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

    81% of people named Rapier identified as white (not Hispanic), 12% as Black (not Hispanic) and 3.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 81%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 12%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.1%
    • Two or more races 2.6%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.6%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Rapier

    Rapier 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 Rapier?
    1,727 people in the United States had the surname Rapier in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 178,776 Americans. It ranked 16,601st of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Rapier?
    In the 2010 Census, 81% of people named Rapier identified as white (not Hispanic), and 12% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Rapier getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,510 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,727 in 2010, up 14%.