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    The surname Reay

    A surname, carried by 1,133 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex R000

    Reay: #22,646 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Reay #22,646, 1,133 people Reay: #22,646 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Reay #22,646, 1,133 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Reay is more common than 86% of them.

    Origin

    Variant of Rye.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,133 people named Reay in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 272,503 Americans. That is down 3.7% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,177.

    #22,646
    rank among US surnames
    1,133
    people in 2010
    0.4
    per 100,000 Americans
    -3.7%
    change since 2000 (was #20,854)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #22,637Prato1,134272,262
    #22,646DiVincenzo1,133272,503

    Who is named Reay

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

    94% of people named Reay identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.7% as two or more races and 1.3% as Black (not Hispanic).

    • White (not Hispanic) 94%
    • Two or more races 2.7%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 1.3%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.3%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.5%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Reay

    Reay has the Soundex code R000, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code R000.

    Questions

    Where does the surname Reay come from?
    Variant of Rye.
    How common is the surname Reay?
    1,133 people in the United States had the surname Reay in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 272,503 Americans. It ranked 22,646th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Reay?
    In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Reay identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.7% as two or more races.
    Is the surname Reay getting more or less common?
    Less common. 1,177 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,133 in 2010, down 3.7%.