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    The surname Rasor

    A surname, carried by 1,712 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex R260

    Rasor: #16,716 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Rasor #16,716, 1,712 people Rasor: #16,716 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Rasor #16,716, 1,712 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Rasor is more common than 89.7% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,712 people named Rasor in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 180,342 Americans. That is up 14% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,499.

    #16,716
    rank among US surnames
    1,712
    people in 2010
    0.6
    per 100,000 Americans
    +14.2%
    change since 2000 (was #17,370)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #16,707Nyquist1,713180,237
    #16,716Rasor1,712180,342
    #16,720Deeb1,711180,447

    Who is named Rasor

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

    87% of people named Rasor identified as white (not Hispanic), 4.7% as Black (not Hispanic) and 3.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 87%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 4.7%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.6%
    • Two or more races 2.3%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 1.3%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.8%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Variant spellings

    • Resor

    Surnames that sound like Rasor

    Rasor 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 Rasor?
    1,712 people in the United States had the surname Rasor in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 180,342 Americans. It ranked 16,716th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Rasor?
    In the 2010 Census, 87% of people named Rasor identified as white (not Hispanic), and 4.7% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Rasor getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,499 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,712 in 2010, up 14%.
    What are other spellings of Rasor?
    Resor.