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    The surname Reel

    A surname, carried by 5,316 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex R400

    Reel: #6,399 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Reel #6,399, 5,316 people Reel: #6,399 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Reel #6,399, 5,316 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Reel is more common than 96.1% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 5,316 people named Reel in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 58,079 Americans. That is up 1.0% since 2000, when the Census counted 5,263.

    #6,399
    rank among US surnames
    5,316
    people in 2010
    1.8
    per 100,000 Americans
    +1%
    change since 2000 (was #6,018)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #6,391Elwell5,32657,969
    #6,392Schroder5,32557,980
    #6,393McMillin5,32358,002
    #6,394Golding5,32158,024
    #6,395Babbitt5,32058,035
    #6,396Cofield5,31958,046
    #6,398Whitmer5,31758,068

    Who is named Reel

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

    88% of people named Reel identified as white (not Hispanic), 6.9% as Black (not Hispanic) and 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 88%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 6.9%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.9%
    • Two or more races 1.6%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.8%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Reel

    Reel has the Soundex code R400, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code R400.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Reel?
    5,316 people in the United States had the surname Reel in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 58,079 Americans. It ranked 6,399th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Reel?
    In the 2010 Census, 88% of people named Reel identified as white (not Hispanic), and 6.9% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Reel getting more or less common?
    More common. 5,263 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 5,316 in 2010, up 1.0%.