How common is the surname Riehl?

3,852 people in the United States had the surname Riehl in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 80,152 Americans. It ranked 8,551st of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Riehl?

In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Riehl identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Riehl getting more or less common?

More common. 3,498 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,852 in 2010, up 10%.

The surname Riehl

A surname, carried by 3,852 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex R400

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Riehl is more common than 94.7% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 3,852 people named Riehl in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 80,152 Americans. That is up 10% since 2000, when the Census counted 3,498.

#8,551

rank among US surnames

3,852

people in 2010

1.3

per 100,000 Americans

+10.1%

change since 2000 (was #8,650)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#8,547	Winner	3,853	80,131
#8,551	Riehl	3,852	80,152
#8,556	Gress	3,850	80,194
#8,558	Lafave	3,849	80,214
#8,559	Defelice	3,848	80,235

Who is named Riehl

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

96% of people named Riehl identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.3% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 96%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.4%
Two or more races 1.3%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.3%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.2%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Riehl

Riehl has the Soundex code R400, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code R400.

Questions

How common is the surname Riehl?: 3,852 people in the United States had the surname Riehl in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 80,152 Americans. It ranked 8,551st of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Riehl?: In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Riehl identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Riehl getting more or less common?: More common. 3,498 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,852 in 2010, up 10%.