The surname Rickel
A surname, carried by 1,301 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex R240
Origin
A surname.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 1,301 people named Rickel in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 237,314 Americans. That is up 14% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,144.
#20,421
rank among US surnames
1,301
people in 2010
0.4
per 100,000 Americans
+13.7%
change since 2000 (was #21,335)
Who is named Rickel
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
93% of people named Rickel identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.8% as two or more races.
- White (not Hispanic) 93%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.5%
- Two or more races 1.8%
- Black (not Hispanic) 0.9%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.9%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.8%
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Rickel has the Soundex code R240, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code R240.
Questions
- How common is the surname Rickel?
- 1,301 people in the United States had the surname Rickel in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 237,314 Americans. It ranked 20,421st of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Rickel?
- In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Rickel identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- Is the surname Rickel getting more or less common?
- More common. 1,144 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,301 in 2010, up 14%.