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    The surname Reil

    A surname, carried by 1,250 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex R400

    Reil: #21,034 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Reil #21,034, 1,250 people Reil: #21,034 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Reil #21,034, 1,250 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Reil is more common than 87% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,250 people named Reil in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 246,996 Americans. That is down 4.4% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,308.

    #21,034
    rank among US surnames
    1,250
    people in 2010
    0.4
    per 100,000 Americans
    -4.4%
    change since 2000 (was #19,196)

    Who is named Reil

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

    91% of people named Reil identified as white (not Hispanic), 5.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.7% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 91%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 5.0%
    • Two or more races 1.7%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 1.2%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 0.6%
    • 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 Reil

    Reil 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 Reil?
    1,250 people in the United States had the surname Reil in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 246,996 Americans. It ranked 21,034th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Reil?
    In the 2010 Census, 91% of people named Reil identified as white (not Hispanic), and 5.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    Is the surname Reil getting more or less common?
    Less common. 1,308 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,250 in 2010, down 4.4%.