How common is the surname Rauh?

1,417 people in the United States had the surname Rauh in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 217,887 Americans. It ranked 19,166th of 162,253 surnames.

Is the surname Rauh getting more or less common?

More common. 1,381 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,417 in 2010, up 2.6%.

The surname Rauh

A surname, carried by 1,417 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex R000

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Rauh is more common than 88.2% of them.

Origin

* As a German surname, variant of Rau. * As a Slovene and Serbo-Croatian surname, variations from the German noun Rauch (“smoke”), used to translate Slovene dim.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,417 people named Rauh in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 217,887 Americans. That is up 2.6% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,381.

#19,166

rank among US surnames

1,417

people in 2010

0.5

per 100,000 Americans

+2.6%

change since 2000 (was #18,461)

Who is named Rauh

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

96% of people named Rauh 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%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.6%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Rauh

Rauh has the Soundex code R000, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code R000.

Questions

Where does the surname Rauh come from?: * As a German surname, variant of Rau. * As a Slovene and Serbo-Croatian surname, variations from the German noun Rauch (“smoke”), used to translate Slovene dim.
How common is the surname Rauh?: 1,417 people in the United States had the surname Rauh in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 217,887 Americans. It ranked 19,166th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Rauh?: In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Rauh identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.2% as two or more races.
Is the surname Rauh getting more or less common?: More common. 1,381 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,417 in 2010, up 2.6%.