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    The surname Rhymer

    A surname, carried by 1,738 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex R560

    Rhymer: #16,525 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Rhymer #16,525, 1,738 people Rhymer: #16,525 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Rhymer #16,525, 1,738 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Rhymer is more common than 89.8% of them.

    Origin

    From rhymer.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,738 people named Rhymer in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 177,644 Americans. That is up 7.7% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,613.

    #16,525
    rank among US surnames
    1,738
    people in 2010
    0.6
    per 100,000 Americans
    +7.7%
    change since 2000 (was #16,427)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #16,519Kin1,739177,542
    #16,525Carnegie1,738177,644
    #16,534Cluck1,737177,746

    Who is named Rhymer

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

    78% of people named Rhymer identified as white (not Hispanic), 17% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 78%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 17%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.0%
    • Two or more races 1.4%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.3%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Surnames that sound like Rhymer

    Rhymer has the Soundex code R560, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code R560.

    Questions

    Where does the surname Rhymer come from?
    From rhymer.
    How common is the surname Rhymer?
    1,738 people in the United States had the surname Rhymer in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 177,644 Americans. It ranked 16,525th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Rhymer?
    In the 2010 Census, 78% of people named Rhymer identified as white (not Hispanic), and 17% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Rhymer getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,613 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,738 in 2010, up 7.7%.