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The surname Rasberry

A place surname, carried by 2,800 people in the United States.

3 syllables Soundex R216

Rasberry: #11,283 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Rasberry #11,283, 2,800 people Rasberry: #11,283 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Rasberry #11,283, 2,800 people
Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Rasberry is more common than 93% of them.

Origin

Possibly a habitational surname from a place called Ratsbury, in the parish of Lynton.

Rasberry is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 2,800 people named Rasberry in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 110,266 Americans. That is up 0.9% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,775.

#11,283
rank among US surnames
2,800
people in 2010
0.9
per 100,000 Americans
+0.9%
change since 2000 (was #10,600)
RankSurnamePeople1 in
#11,275Keese2,802110,188
#11,279Wilford2,801110,227
#11,283Rasberry2,800110,266
#11,288Eveland2,799110,306
#11,290Auld2,798110,345

Who is named Rasberry

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

62% of people named Rasberry identified as white (not Hispanic), 31% as Black (not Hispanic) and 3.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

  • White (not Hispanic) 62%
  • Black (not Hispanic) 31%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.0%
  • Two or more races 2.2%
  • American Indian and Alaska Native 1.5%
  • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.3%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

Variant spellings

  • Raspberry

Surnames that sound like Rasberry

Rasberry has the Soundex code R216, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code R216.

Questions

Where does the surname Rasberry come from?
Possibly a habitational surname from a place called Ratsbury, in the parish of Lynton.
How common is the surname Rasberry?
2,800 people in the United States had the surname Rasberry in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 110,266 Americans. It ranked 11,283rd of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Rasberry?
In the 2010 Census, 62% of people named Rasberry identified as white (not Hispanic), and 31% as Black (not Hispanic).
What type of surname is Rasberry?
Rasberry is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
Is the surname Rasberry getting more or less common?
More common. 2,775 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,800 in 2010, up 0.9%.
What are other spellings of Rasberry?
Raspberry.