How common is the surname Riffle?

5,461 people in the United States had the surname Riffle in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 56,536 Americans. It ranked 6,253rd of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Riffle?

In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Riffle identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Riffle getting more or less common?

More common. 5,328 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 5,461 in 2010, up 2.5%.

The surname Riffle

A surname, carried by 5,461 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex R140

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Riffle is more common than 96.1% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 5,461 people named Riffle in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 56,536 Americans. That is up 2.5% since 2000, when the Census counted 5,328.

#6,253

rank among US surnames

5,461

people in 2010

1.9

per 100,000 Americans

+2.5%

change since 2000 (was #5,947)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#6,248	Halloran	5,465	56,495
#6,250	Furtado	5,464	56,505
#6,252	Schauer	5,463	56,516
#6,253	Saad	5,461	56,536

Who is named Riffle

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

95% of people named Riffle identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.8% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 95%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.8%
Two or more races 1.8%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.6%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Riffle

Riffle has the Soundex code R140, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code R140.

Questions

How common is the surname Riffle?: 5,461 people in the United States had the surname Riffle in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 56,536 Americans. It ranked 6,253rd of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Riffle?: In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Riffle identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Riffle getting more or less common?: More common. 5,328 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 5,461 in 2010, up 2.5%.