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The surname Rinker

A surname, carried by 4,750 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex R526

Rinker: #7,050 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Rinker #7,050, 4,750 people Rinker: #7,050 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Rinker #7,050, 4,750 people
Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Rinker is more common than 95.7% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 4,750 people named Rinker in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 64,999 Americans. That is up 5.9% since 2000, when the Census counted 4,485.

#7,050
rank among US surnames
4,750
people in 2010
1.6
per 100,000 Americans
+5.9%
change since 2000 (was #6,901)
RankSurnamePeople1 in
#7,046Aubrey4,75364,958
#7,047Wilborn4,75264,972
#7,048Hooten4,75164,985
#7,050Rinker4,75064,999
#7,052Mapp4,74965,013

Who is named Rinker

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

96% of people named Rinker identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.6% as two or more races and 1.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

  • White (not Hispanic) 96%
  • Two or more races 1.6%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.5%
  • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.8%
  • 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 Rinker

Rinker has the Soundex code R526, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code R526.

Questions

How common is the surname Rinker?
4,750 people in the United States had the surname Rinker in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 64,999 Americans. It ranked 7,050th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Rinker?
In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Rinker identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.6% as two or more races.
Is the surname Rinker getting more or less common?
More common. 4,485 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,750 in 2010, up 5.9%.