How common is the surname Rimer?

1,709 people in the United States had the surname Rimer in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 180,659 Americans. It ranked 16,734th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Rimer?

In the 2010 Census, 92% of people named Rimer identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Rimer getting more or less common?

More common. 1,584 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,709 in 2010, up 7.9%.

The surname Rimer

A surname, carried by 1,709 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex R560

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Rimer is more common than 89.7% of them.

Origin

* As an English surname, from a medieval form of rhymer (“one who rhymes”). * As a Jewish and German surname, spelling variant of Riemer.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,709 people named Rimer in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 180,659 Americans. That is up 7.9% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,584.

#16,734

rank among US surnames

1,709

people in 2010

0.6

per 100,000 Americans

+7.9%

change since 2000 (was #16,652)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#16,728	Rivenbark	1,710	180,553
#16,734	Forbush	1,709	180,659
#16,743	Petti	1,708	180,764

Who is named Rimer

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

92% of people named Rimer identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.9% as Black (not Hispanic).

White (not Hispanic) 92%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.6%
Black (not Hispanic) 1.9%
Two or more races 1.2%

The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; 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 Rimer

Rimer has the Soundex code R560, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code R560.

Questions

Where does the surname Rimer come from?: * As an English surname, from a medieval form of rhymer (“one who rhymes”). * As a Jewish and German surname, spelling variant of Riemer.
How common is the surname Rimer?: 1,709 people in the United States had the surname Rimer in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 180,659 Americans. It ranked 16,734th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Rimer?: In the 2010 Census, 92% of people named Rimer identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Rimer getting more or less common?: More common. 1,584 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,709 in 2010, up 7.9%.