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    The surname Rheaume

    A surname, carried by 1,626 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex R500

    Rheaume: #17,367 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Rheaume #17,367, 1,626 people Rheaume: #17,367 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Rheaume #17,367, 1,626 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Rheaume is more common than 89.3% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,626 people named Rheaume in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 189,880 Americans. That is down 1.1% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,644.

    #17,367
    rank among US surnames
    1,626
    people in 2010
    0.6
    per 100,000 Americans
    -1.1%
    change since 2000 (was #16,168)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #17,359Tussey1,627189,764
    #17,367Safi1,626189,880

    Who is named Rheaume

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

    94% of people named Rheaume identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.7% as Black (not Hispanic) and 1.5% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 94%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 1.7%
    • Two or more races 1.5%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.5%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.9%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.7%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Rheaume

    Rheaume has the Soundex code R500, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code R500.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Rheaume?
    1,626 people in the United States had the surname Rheaume in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 189,880 Americans. It ranked 17,367th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Rheaume?
    In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Rheaume identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.7% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Rheaume getting more or less common?
    Less common. 1,644 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,626 in 2010, down 1.1%.