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    The surname Rieser

    A place surname, carried by 810 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex R260

    Rieser: #29,231 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Rieser #29,231, 810 people Rieser: #29,231 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#100Jimenez Rieser #29,231, 810 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Rieser is more common than 82% of them.

    Origin

    * As a German surname, an Alemannic German variant of Reiser. * Also as a habitational German surname, from the town Ries in Passau. * Also as a Swiss German surname, variant of Rüsser, Rüser, themselves variants of Reusser. * Also as a German surname, variant of Riesser, from the place Donau-Ries in Bavaria.

    Rieser is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 810 people named Rieser in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 381,167 Americans. That is down 20% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,008.

    #29,231
    rank among US surnames
    810
    people in 2010
    0.3
    per 100,000 Americans
    -19.6%
    change since 2000 (was #23,501)

    Who is named Rieser

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

    96% of people named Rieser identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 96%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.9%
    • Two or more races 0.9%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Rieser

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

    Questions

    Where does the surname Rieser come from?
    * As a German surname, an Alemannic German variant of Reiser. * Also as a habitational German surname, from the town Ries in Passau. * Also as a Swiss German surname, variant of Rüsser, Rüser, themselves variants of Reusser. * Also as a German surname, variant of Riesser, from the place Donau-Ries…
    How common is the surname Rieser?
    810 people in the United States had the surname Rieser in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 381,167 Americans. It ranked 29,231st of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Rieser?
    In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Rieser identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    What type of surname is Rieser?
    Rieser is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Rieser getting more or less common?
    Less common. 1,008 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 810 in 2010, down 20%.