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    The surname Rawl

    An Irish surname, carried by 537 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex R400

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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). Rawl is more common than 74.9% of them.

    Origin

    Irish origin

    Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó Raghaill, a variant of Ó Raghailligh, from which O'Reilly.

    One of 880 Irish surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 537 people named Rawl in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 574,945 Americans. That is down 3.9% since 2000, when the Census counted 559.

    #40,672
    rank among US surnames
    537
    people in 2010
    0.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    -3.9%
    change since 2000 (was #37,480)

    Who is named Rawl

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

    81% of people named Rawl identified as white (not Hispanic), 14% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.8% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 81%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 14%
    • Two or more races 2.8%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 0.9%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Surnames that sound like Rawl

    Rawl has the Soundex code R400, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code R400.

    Other Irish surnames

    All 880 Irish surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Rawl come from?
    Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó Raghaill, a variant of Ó Raghailligh, from which O'Reilly.
    How common is the surname Rawl?
    537 people in the United States had the surname Rawl in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 574,945 Americans. It ranked 40,672nd of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Rawl?
    In the 2010 Census, 81% of people named Rawl identified as white (not Hispanic), and 14% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Rawl getting more or less common?
    Less common. 559 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 537 in 2010, down 3.9%.