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    The surname Record

    A surname, carried by 3,515 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex R263

    Record: #9,262 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Record #9,262, 3,515 people Record: #9,262 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Record #9,262, 3,515 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Record is more common than 94.3% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 3,515 people named Record in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 87,837 Americans. That is up 1.5% since 2000, when the Census counted 3,462.

    #9,262
    rank among US surnames
    3,515
    people in 2010
    1.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    +1.5%
    change since 2000 (was #8,737)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #9,255Mill3,51887,762
    #9,257Bakke3,51787,787
    #9,258Krawczyk3,51687,812
    #9,262Gingrich3,51587,837
    #9,265Sickler3,51487,862
    #9,267Deleo3,51387,887

    Who is named Record

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

    86% of people named Record identified as white (not Hispanic), 7.5% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 86%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 7.5%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.5%
    • Two or more races 2.3%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.9%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%

    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 Record

    Record has the Soundex code R263, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code R263.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Record?
    3,515 people in the United States had the surname Record in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 87,837 Americans. It ranked 9,262nd of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Record?
    In the 2010 Census, 86% of people named Record identified as white (not Hispanic), and 7.5% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Record getting more or less common?
    More common. 3,462 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,515 in 2010, up 1.5%.