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    The surname Reader

    A surname, carried by 3,313 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex R360

    Reader: #9,780 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Reader #9,780, 3,313 people Reader: #9,780 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Reader #9,780, 3,313 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Reader is more common than 94% of them.

    Origin

    A surname

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 3,313 people named Reader in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 93,192 Americans. That is up 5.0% since 2000, when the Census counted 3,156.

    #9,780
    rank among US surnames
    3,313
    people in 2010
    1.1
    per 100,000 Americans
    +5%
    change since 2000 (was #9,455)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #9,777Petrick3,31593,136
    #9,778Shenk3,31493,164
    #9,780Polak3,31393,192
    #9,783Stagg3,31293,220
    #9,784Yowell3,31193,248
    #9,786Loughlin3,30993,305
    #9,788Chico3,30893,333

    Who is named Reader

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

    88% of people named Reader identified as white (not Hispanic), 7.2% as Black (not Hispanic) and 1.9% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 88%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 7.2%
    • Two or more races 1.9%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.7%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.7%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Reader

    Reader has the Soundex code R360, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code R360.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Reader?
    3,313 people in the United States had the surname Reader in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 93,192 Americans. It ranked 9,780th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Reader?
    In the 2010 Census, 88% of people named Reader identified as white (not Hispanic), and 7.2% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Reader getting more or less common?
    More common. 3,156 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,313 in 2010, up 5.0%.