How common is the surname Reuter?

7,643 people in the United States had the surname Reuter in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 40,396 Americans. It ranked 4,644th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Reuter?

In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Reuter identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Who is the most famous person named Reuter?

George François Reuter, botanist (1805-1872), followed by Renan Soares Reuter.

Where is the surname Reuter most common?

Wikidata records people named Reuter in the United States, Switzerland and Brazil.

Is the surname Reuter getting more or less common?

More common. 7,454 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 7,643 in 2010, up 2.5%.

The surname Reuter

A German surname, carried by 7,643 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex R360

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Reuter is more common than 97.1% of them.

Origin

German origin

From German Reuter.

One of 1,101 German surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 7,643 people named Reuter in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 40,396 Americans. That is up 2.5% since 2000, when the Census counted 7,454.

#4,644

rank among US surnames

7,643

people in 2010

2.6

per 100,000 Americans

+2.5%

change since 2000 (was #4,400)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#4,638	Savoy	7,649	40,364
#4,640	Flanigan	7,648	40,369
#4,642	McKeever	7,647	40,375
#4,644	Reuter	7,643	40,396

Who is named Reuter

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

96% of people named Reuter identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 96%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.2%
Two or more races 0.8%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.3%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.1%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Famous Reuters

4 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

George François Reuter
Botanist (1805-1872)
Renan Soares Reuter
Brazilian footballer, born 1990
James B. Reuter
American-Filipino Jesuit priest (1916-2012)
Florizel von Reuter
American musician (1890-1985)

Notable Reuters come mostly from the United States (2), Switzerland (1) and Brazil (1).

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Reuter

Reuter has the Soundex code R360, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code R360.

Other German surnames

All 1,101 German surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Reuter come from?: From German Reuter.
How common is the surname Reuter?: 7,643 people in the United States had the surname Reuter in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 40,396 Americans. It ranked 4,644th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Reuter?: In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Reuter identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Who is the most famous person named Reuter?: George François Reuter, botanist (1805-1872), followed by Renan Soares Reuter.
Where is the surname Reuter most common?: Wikidata records people named Reuter in the United States, Switzerland and Brazil.
Is the surname Reuter getting more or less common?: More common. 7,454 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 7,643 in 2010, up 2.5%.