How common is the surname Risinger?

3,196 people in the United States had the surname Risinger in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 96,604 Americans. It ranked 10,085th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Risinger?

In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Risinger identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Risinger getting more or less common?

More common. 3,053 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,196 in 2010, up 4.7%.

The surname Risinger

A surname, carried by 3,196 people in the United States.

3 syllables Soundex R252

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Risinger is more common than 93.8% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 3,196 people named Risinger in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 96,604 Americans. That is up 4.7% since 2000, when the Census counted 3,053.

#10,085

rank among US surnames

3,196

people in 2010

1.1

per 100,000 Americans

+4.7%

change since 2000 (was #9,774)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#10,079	Gaudette	3,198	96,543
#10,082	Kiker	3,197	96,574
#10,085	Risinger	3,196	96,604
#10,088	Kahle	3,195	96,634
#10,090	Koziol	3,194	96,664
#10,092	Mines	3,193	96,694

Who is named Risinger

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

95% of people named Risinger identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.2% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 95%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.6%
Two or more races 1.2%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.6%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.3%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Risinger

Risinger has the Soundex code R252, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code R252.

Questions

How common is the surname Risinger?: 3,196 people in the United States had the surname Risinger in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 96,604 Americans. It ranked 10,085th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Risinger?: In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Risinger identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Risinger getting more or less common?: More common. 3,053 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,196 in 2010, up 4.7%.