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    The surname Raw

    An English place surname, carried by 334 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex R000

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    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Raw is more common than 62.8% of them.

    Origin

    English origin

    Topographic surname for someone who lived at a hedgerow or at a row of houses, from Old English rāw (“row”).

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

    One of 1,446 English surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 334 people named Raw in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 924,388 Americans. That is up 1.2% since 2000, when the Census counted 330.

    #60,347
    rank among US surnames
    334
    people in 2010
    0.1
    per 100,000 Americans
    +1.2%
    change since 2000 (was #57,705)

    Who is named Raw

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

    87% of people named Raw identified as white (not Hispanic), 6.0% as Asian and Pacific Islander and 3.6% as Black (not Hispanic).

    • White (not Hispanic) 87%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 6.0%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 3.6%
    • Two or more races 2.1%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.8%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Famous Raws

    1 notable person on Wikidata, most written-about first

    • Gugu Mbatha-Raw
      British actress (born 1983)

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Raw

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

    Other English surnames

    All 1,446 English surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Raw come from?
    Topographic surname for someone who lived at a hedgerow or at a row of houses, from Old English rāw (“row”).
    How common is the surname Raw?
    334 people in the United States had the surname Raw in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 924,388 Americans. It ranked 60,347th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Raw?
    In the 2010 Census, 87% of people named Raw identified as white (not Hispanic), and 6.0% as Asian and Pacific Islander.
    Who is the most famous person named Raw?
    Gugu Mbatha-Raw, British actress (born 1983).
    Where is the surname Raw most common?
    Wikidata records people named Raw in the United Kingdom.
    What type of surname is Raw?
    Raw is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Raw getting more or less common?
    More common. 330 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 334 in 2010, up 1.2%.