How common is the surname Rieck?

2,847 people in the United States had the surname Rieck in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 108,446 Americans. It ranked 11,132nd of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Rieck?

In the 2010 Census, 97% of people named Rieck identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Rieck getting more or less common?

Less common. 2,902 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,847 in 2010, down 1.9%.

The surname Rieck

A surname, carried by 2,847 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex R200

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Rieck is more common than 93.1% of them.

Origin

* As a south German surname, variant of a personal name derived from Proto-West Germanic *hrōþi + *gaiʀ (“spear”), similar to the English name Roger. * As a north German surname, from a personal name derived from *rīkī (“powerful, mighty”). * As a Germanized Lower Sorbian surname, from rjek (“hero”), itself a Germanic borrowing from Old High German reccho (“adventurer”). Compare Reck.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 2,847 people named Rieck in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 108,446 Americans. That is down 1.9% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,902.

#11,132

rank among US surnames

2,847

people in 2010

1.0

per 100,000 Americans

-1.9%

change since 2000 (was #10,196)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#11,127	Depina	2,849	108,370
#11,131	Arnone	2,848	108,408
#11,132	Rieck	2,847	108,446
#11,134	McWhirter	2,846	108,484
#11,135	Pernell	2,845	108,522
#11,138	Henrich	2,843	108,599

Who is named Rieck

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

97% of people named Rieck identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 97%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.2%
Two or more races 0.7%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%

The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Native American are not shown.

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Rieck

Rieck 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 Rieck come from?: * As a south German surname, variant of a personal name derived from Proto-West Germanic *hrōþi + *gaiʀ (“spear”), similar to the English name Roger. * As a north German surname, from a personal name derived from *rīkī (“powerful, mighty”). * As a Germanized Lower Sorbian surname, from rjek…
How common is the surname Rieck?: 2,847 people in the United States had the surname Rieck in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 108,446 Americans. It ranked 11,132nd of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Rieck?: In the 2010 Census, 97% of people named Rieck identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Rieck getting more or less common?: Less common. 2,902 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,847 in 2010, down 1.9%.