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    The surname Ratzlaff

    A surname, carried by 2,476 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex R324

    Ratzlaff: #12,519 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Ratzlaff #12,519, 2,476 people Ratzlaff: #12,519 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Ratzlaff #12,519, 2,476 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Ratzlaff is more common than 92.3% of them.

    Origin

    Germanized form of Slavic personal names such as Radoslav, Ratislav, etc.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 2,476 people named Ratzlaff in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 124,695 Americans. That is up 2.4% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,418.

    #12,519
    rank among US surnames
    2,476
    people in 2010
    0.8
    per 100,000 Americans
    +2.4%
    change since 2000 (was #11,859)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #12,510Shain2,478124,595
    #12,514Freire2,477124,645
    #12,519Ratzlaff2,476124,695
    #12,520Dampier2,475124,746
    #12,525Mendivil2,474124,796

    Who is named Ratzlaff

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

    95% of people named Ratzlaff identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.7% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 95%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.2%
    • Two or more races 1.7%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.8%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 0.2%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Variant spellings

    Surnames that sound like Ratzlaff

    Ratzlaff has the Soundex code R324, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code R324.

    Questions

    Where does the surname Ratzlaff come from?
    Germanized form of Slavic personal names such as Radoslav, Ratislav, etc.
    How common is the surname Ratzlaff?
    2,476 people in the United States had the surname Ratzlaff in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 124,695 Americans. It ranked 12,519th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Ratzlaff?
    In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Ratzlaff identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    Is the surname Ratzlaff getting more or less common?
    More common. 2,418 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,476 in 2010, up 2.4%.
    What are other spellings of Ratzlaff?
    Retzlaff, Retzlaw and Retzloff.