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    The surname Reames

    A Norman place surname, carried by 2,894 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex R520

    Reames: #10,987 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Reames #10,987, 2,894 people Reames: #10,987 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Reames #10,987, 2,894 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Reames is more common than 93.2% of them.

    Origin

    Norman origin

    Habitational surname of Norman origin, from a small village in Normandy.

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

    One of 128 Norman surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 2,894 people named Reames in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 106,685 Americans. That is up 5.5% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,743.

    #10,987
    rank among US surnames
    2,894
    people in 2010
    1.0
    per 100,000 Americans
    +5.5%
    change since 2000 (was #10,689)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #10,979Lucier2,897106,574
    #10,983Mirabal2,896106,611
    #10,986Repp2,895106,648
    #10,987Locker2,894106,685
    #10,993Chupp2,893106,722

    Who is named Reames

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

    88% of people named Reames identified as white (not Hispanic), 7.0% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 88%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 7.0%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.5%
    • Two or more races 1.4%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.5%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Famous Reamess

    1 notable person on Wikidata, most written-about first

    • Alfred E. Reames
      American politician (1870-1943)

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Surnames that sound like Reames

    Reames has the Soundex code R520, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code R520.

    Other Norman surnames

    All 128 Norman surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Reames come from?
    Habitational surname of Norman origin, from a small village in Normandy.
    How common is the surname Reames?
    2,894 people in the United States had the surname Reames in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 106,685 Americans. It ranked 10,987th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Reames?
    In the 2010 Census, 88% of people named Reames identified as white (not Hispanic), and 7.0% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Who is the most famous person named Reames?
    Alfred E. Reames, American politician (1870-1943).
    Where is the surname Reames most common?
    Wikidata records people named Reames in the United States.
    What type of surname is Reames?
    Reames is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Reames getting more or less common?
    More common. 2,743 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,894 in 2010, up 5.5%.