# Rinne (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/rinne/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | Finnish |
| Type | place, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 583 |
| US rank (2010) | 38,050 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 529,581 people |
| Change since 2000 | -28.2% (812 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

Two main origins: * Borrowed from Finnish Rinne, a topographic or ornamental surname from rinne (“slope”). * Borrowed from German Rinne, a topographic surname from Middle High German rinne (“stream, spring; channel, pipe, groove”).

## Who carries it

Share of people named Rinne in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 95% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 2.9% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Rinne in Finland.

## People named Rinne

- Antti Rinne, 45th Prime Minister of Finland

## Similar surnames

Rainey, Rennie, Ranney, Rine, Raine, Riney, Rini, Rhine, Ryan, Reyna, Romo, Ramey.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.