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    The surname Register

    A surname, carried by 9,075 people in the United States.

    3 syllables Soundex R223

    Register: #3,914 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Register #3,914, 9,075 people Register: #3,914 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Register #3,914, 9,075 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Register is more common than 97.6% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 9,075 people named Register in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 34,022 Americans. That is up 3.7% since 2000, when the Census counted 8,754.

    #3,914
    rank among US surnames
    9,075
    people in 2010
    3.1
    per 100,000 Americans
    +3.7%
    change since 2000 (was #3,718)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #3,910Cady9,08433,988
    #3,911See9,08133,999
    #3,913Glasgow9,07834,010
    #3,914Register9,07534,022

    Who is named Register

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

    84% of people named Register identified as white (not Hispanic), 11% as Black (not Hispanic) and 1.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 84%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 11%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.7%
    • Two or more races 1.6%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Famous Registers

    1 notable person on Wikidata, most written-about first

    • Sam Register
      American television producer, born 1969

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Variant spellings

    • Regester

    Surnames that sound like Register

    Register has the Soundex code R223, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code R223.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Register?
    9,075 people in the United States had the surname Register in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 34,022 Americans. It ranked 3,914th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Register?
    In the 2010 Census, 84% of people named Register identified as white (not Hispanic), and 11% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Who is the most famous person named Register?
    Sam Register, American television producer.
    Where is the surname Register most common?
    Wikidata records people named Register in the United States.
    Is the surname Register getting more or less common?
    More common. 8,754 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 9,075 in 2010, up 3.7%.
    What are other spellings of Register?
    Regester.