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    The surname Richburg

    A German surname, carried by 3,205 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex R216

    Richburg: #10,050 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Richburg #10,050, 3,205 people Richburg: #10,050 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Richburg #10,050, 3,205 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Richburg is more common than 93.8% of them.

    Origin

    German origin

    Probably an Americanized form of German Reichenberg.

    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 3,205 people named Richburg in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 96,332 Americans. That is up 2.8% since 2000, when the Census counted 3,118.

    #10,050
    rank among US surnames
    3,205
    people in 2010
    1.1
    per 100,000 Americans
    +2.8%
    change since 2000 (was #9,567)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #10,041Caster3,20896,242
    #10,044Lieb3,20796,272
    #10,046Pound3,20696,302
    #10,050Dasher3,20596,332
    #10,059Wesolowski3,20496,363

    Who is named Richburg

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

    55% of people named Richburg identified as Black (not Hispanic), 40% as white (not Hispanic) and 2.1% as two or more races.

    • Black (not Hispanic) 55%
    • White (not Hispanic) 40%
    • Two or more races 2.1%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.8%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.3%

    Compare: most common surnames among Black Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Variant spellings

    • Richbourg

    Richburg has the Soundex code R216, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code R216.

    Other German surnames

    All 1,101 German surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Richburg come from?
    Probably an Americanized form of German Reichenberg.
    How common is the surname Richburg?
    3,205 people in the United States had the surname Richburg in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 96,332 Americans. It ranked 10,050th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Richburg?
    In the 2010 Census, 55% of people named Richburg identified as Black (not Hispanic), and 40% as white (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Richburg getting more or less common?
    More common. 3,118 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,205 in 2010, up 2.8%.
    What are other spellings of Richburg?
    Richbourg.