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    The surname Rawe

    An English place surname, carried by 532 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex R000

    Rawe: #40,976 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Rawe #40,976, 532 people Rawe: #40,976 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#100Jimenez Rawe #40,976, 532 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Rawe is more common than 74.7% of them.

    Origin

    English origin

    Two possible origins: * From Middle English rawe (“row”), a topographic surname for someone who lived by a hedgerow or in a row of houses. * From Middle English rawe (“raw”), a nickname for an ignorant or unskilled youth.

    Rawe 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 532 people named Rawe in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 580,349 Americans. That is up 3.7% since 2000, when the Census counted 513.

    #40,976
    rank among US surnames
    532
    people in 2010
    0.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    +3.7%
    change since 2000 (was #40,203)

    Who is named Rawe

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

    95% of people named Rawe identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.4% as Black (not Hispanic) and 1.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 95%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 2.4%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.5%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American, Multiracial are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Rawe

    Rawe 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 Rawe come from?
    Two possible origins: * From Middle English rawe (“row”), a topographic surname for someone who lived by a hedgerow or in a row of houses. * From Middle English rawe (“raw”), a nickname for an ignorant or unskilled youth.
    How common is the surname Rawe?
    532 people in the United States had the surname Rawe in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 580,349 Americans. It ranked 40,976th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Rawe?
    In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Rawe identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.4% as Black (not Hispanic).
    What type of surname is Rawe?
    Rawe is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Rawe getting more or less common?
    More common. 513 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 532 in 2010, up 3.7%.