How common is the surname Rieger?

5,989 people in the United States had the surname Rieger in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 51,552 Americans. It ranked 5,783rd of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Rieger?

In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Rieger identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Rieger getting more or less common?

More common. 5,739 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 5,989 in 2010, up 4.4%.

The surname Rieger

A German surname, carried by 5,989 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex R260

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Rieger is more common than 96.4% of them.

Origin

German origin

Borrowed from German Rieger.

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 5,989 people named Rieger in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 51,552 Americans. That is up 4.4% since 2000, when the Census counted 5,739.

#5,783

rank among US surnames

5,989

people in 2010

2.0

per 100,000 Americans

+4.4%

change since 2000 (was #5,557)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#5,780	Durst	5,995	51,501
#5,781	Vansickle	5,994	51,509
#5,782	Tankersley	5,990	51,543
#5,783	Bedell	5,989	51,552
#5,786	Maxfield	5,987	51,569

Who is named Rieger

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

96% of people named Rieger identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.1% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 96%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.3%
Two or more races 1.1%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.4%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.1%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

Variant spellings

Reagor

Surnames that sound like Rieger

Rieger has the Soundex code R260, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code R260.

Other German surnames

All 1,101 German surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Rieger come from?: Borrowed from German Rieger.
How common is the surname Rieger?: 5,989 people in the United States had the surname Rieger in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 51,552 Americans. It ranked 5,783rd of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Rieger?: In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Rieger identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Rieger getting more or less common?: More common. 5,739 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 5,989 in 2010, up 4.4%.
What are other spellings of Rieger?: Reagor.