The surname Rishel
A surname, carried by 1,647 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex R240
Origin
A surname.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 1,647 people named Rishel in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 187,459 Americans. That is up 6.1% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,552.
#17,193
rank among US surnames
1,647
people in 2010
0.6
per 100,000 Americans
+6.1%
change since 2000 (was #16,914)
Who is named Rishel
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
96% of people named Rishel identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- White (not Hispanic) 96%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.9%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.7%
- Two or more races 0.7%
- Black (not Hispanic) 0.4%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.3%
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Rishel has the Soundex code R240, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code R240.
Questions
- How common is the surname Rishel?
- 1,647 people in the United States had the surname Rishel in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 187,459 Americans. It ranked 17,193rd of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Rishel?
- In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Rishel identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- Is the surname Rishel getting more or less common?
- More common. 1,552 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,647 in 2010, up 6.1%.