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    The surname Rayburn

    A Scottish place surname, carried by 8,532 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex R165

    Rayburn: #4,152 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Rayburn #4,152, 8,532 people Rayburn: #4,152 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Rayburn #4,152, 8,532 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Rayburn is more common than 97.4% of them.

    Origin

    Scottish origin

    Scottish habitational surname, from Raeburn, a place in the Scottish Borders name from Scots rae (“roebuck”) + burn (“stream”).

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

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 8,532 people named Rayburn in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 36,187 Americans. That is up 1.1% since 2000, when the Census counted 8,438.

    #4,152
    rank among US surnames
    8,532
    people in 2010
    2.9
    per 100,000 Americans
    +1.1%
    change since 2000 (was #3,866)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #4,143Meneses8,54836,119
    #4,145Trice8,54636,127
    #4,146McCallister8,54536,132
    #4,147Koss8,54436,136
    #4,149Burley8,54236,144
    #4,150Fries8,54036,153
    #4,151Jobe8,53636,170

    Who is named Rayburn

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

    93% of people named Rayburn identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 2.2% as Black (not Hispanic).

    • White (not Hispanic) 93%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.6%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 2.2%
    • Two or more races 1.5%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Variant spellings

    • Raeburn
    • Reyburn
    • Ryburn

    Surnames that sound like Rayburn

    Rayburn has the Soundex code R165, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code R165.

    Questions

    Where does the surname Rayburn come from?
    Scottish habitational surname, from Raeburn, a place in the Scottish Borders name from Scots rae (“roebuck”) + burn (“stream”).
    How common is the surname Rayburn?
    8,532 people in the United States had the surname Rayburn in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 36,187 Americans. It ranked 4,152nd of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Rayburn?
    In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Rayburn identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    What type of surname is Rayburn?
    Rayburn is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Rayburn getting more or less common?
    More common. 8,438 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 8,532 in 2010, up 1.1%.
    What are other spellings of Rayburn?
    Raeburn, Reyburn and Ryburn.