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    The surname Rine

    A surname, carried by 2,370 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex R500

    Rine: #12,961 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Rine #12,961, 2,370 people Rine: #12,961 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Rine #12,961, 2,370 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Rine is more common than 92% of them.

    Origin

    From the German surname, variant of Rein, Rhine, Rhein.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 2,370 people named Rine in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 130,272 Americans. That is down 1.0% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,395.

    #12,961
    rank among US surnames
    2,370
    people in 2010
    0.8
    per 100,000 Americans
    -1%
    change since 2000 (was #11,964)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #12,953Silverberg2,371130,217
    #12,961Rine2,370130,272
    #12,965Stigall2,369130,327
    #12,968Highfill2,368130,382

    Who is named Rine

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

    94% of people named Rine identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.2% as Asian and Pacific Islander.

    • White (not Hispanic) 94%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.4%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 1.2%
    • Two or more races 0.8%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 0.8%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.6%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Surnames that sound like Rine

    Rine has the Soundex code R500, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code R500.

    Questions

    Where does the surname Rine come from?
    From the German surname, variant of Rein, Rhine, Rhein.
    How common is the surname Rine?
    2,370 people in the United States had the surname Rine in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 130,272 Americans. It ranked 12,961st of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Rine?
    In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Rine identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    Is the surname Rine getting more or less common?
    Less common. 2,395 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,370 in 2010, down 1.0%.