How common is the surname Reichel?

2,670 people in the United States had the surname Reichel in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 115,635 Americans. It ranked 11,736th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Reichel?

In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Reichel identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Reichel getting more or less common?

More common. 2,649 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,670 in 2010, up 0.8%.

The surname Reichel

A surname, carried by 2,670 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex R240

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Reichel is more common than 92.8% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 2,670 people named Reichel in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 115,635 Americans. That is up 0.8% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,649.

#11,736

rank among US surnames

2,670

people in 2010

0.9

per 100,000 Americans

+0.8%

change since 2000 (was #11,012)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#11,728	Currey	2,672	115,548
#11,733	Hoskin	2,671	115,592
#11,736	Rockey	2,670	115,635
#11,739	Degroat	2,669	115,678
#11,743	Manzi	2,668	115,722

Who is named Reichel

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

94% of people named Reichel identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.3% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 94%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.9%
Two or more races 1.3%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.4%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.2%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Reichel

Reichel has the Soundex code R240, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code R240.

Questions

How common is the surname Reichel?: 2,670 people in the United States had the surname Reichel in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 115,635 Americans. It ranked 11,736th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Reichel?: In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Reichel identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Reichel getting more or less common?: More common. 2,649 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,670 in 2010, up 0.8%.