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    The surname Riche

    A surname, carried by 1,664 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex R200

    Riche: #17,063 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Riche #17,063, 1,664 people Riche: #17,063 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Riche #17,063, 1,664 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Riche is more common than 89.5% of them.

    Origin

    As an English surname, from Rich. As a French surname, from Old French riche.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,664 people named Riche in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 185,544 Americans. That is up 17% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,421.

    #17,063
    rank among US surnames
    1,664
    people in 2010
    0.6
    per 100,000 Americans
    +17.1%
    change since 2000 (was #18,087)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #17,056Stem1,665185,433
    #17,063Lasko1,664185,544
    #17,072Flinchum1,663185,656

    Who is named Riche

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

    68% of people named Riche identified as white (not Hispanic), 25% as Black (not Hispanic) and 4.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 68%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 25%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 4.7%
    • Two or more races 1.7%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.5%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%

    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 Riche

    Riche has the Soundex code R200, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code R200.

    Questions

    Where does the surname Riche come from?
    As an English surname, from Rich. As a French surname, from Old French riche.
    How common is the surname Riche?
    1,664 people in the United States had the surname Riche in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 185,544 Americans. It ranked 17,063rd of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Riche?
    In the 2010 Census, 68% of people named Riche identified as white (not Hispanic), and 25% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Riche getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,421 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,664 in 2010, up 17%.