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    The surname Rials

    A surname, carried by 1,048 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex R420

    Rials: #24,049 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Rials #24,049, 1,048 people Rials: #24,049 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#100Jimenez Rials #24,049, 1,048 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Rials is more common than 85.2% of them.

    Origin

    Probably a variant of Ryalls.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,048 people named Rials in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 294,605 Americans. That is down 3.2% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,083.

    #24,049
    rank among US surnames
    1,048
    people in 2010
    0.4
    per 100,000 Americans
    -3.2%
    change since 2000 (was #22,222)

    Who is named Rials

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

    72% of people named Rials identified as white (not Hispanic), 21% as Black (not Hispanic) and 3.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 72%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 21%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.6%
    • Two or more races 2.7%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American are not shown.

    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 Rials

    Rials has the Soundex code R420, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code R420.

    Questions

    Where does the surname Rials come from?
    Probably a variant of Ryalls.
    How common is the surname Rials?
    1,048 people in the United States had the surname Rials in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 294,605 Americans. It ranked 24,049th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Rials?
    In the 2010 Census, 72% of people named Rials identified as white (not Hispanic), and 21% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Rials getting more or less common?
    Less common. 1,083 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,048 in 2010, down 3.2%.