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    The surname Risk

    A surname, carried by 1,621 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex R200

    Risk: #17,406 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Risk #17,406, 1,621 people Risk: #17,406 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Risk #17,406, 1,621 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Risk is more common than 89.3% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,621 people named Risk in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 190,466 Americans. That is up 3.7% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,563.

    #17,406
    rank among US surnames
    1,621
    people in 2010
    0.6
    per 100,000 Americans
    +3.7%
    change since 2000 (was #16,810)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #17,398Olaughlin1,622190,349
    #17,406Beaudette1,621190,466

    Who is named Risk

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

    94% of people named Risk identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.5% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 94%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.1%
    • Two or more races 1.5%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 1.0%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 0.3%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Risk

    Risk has the Soundex code R200, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code R200.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Risk?
    1,621 people in the United States had the surname Risk in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 190,466 Americans. It ranked 17,406th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Risk?
    In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Risk identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    Is the surname Risk getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,563 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,621 in 2010, up 3.7%.