The surname Rister
A surname, carried by 1,593 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex R236
Origin
A surname.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 1,593 people named Rister in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 193,814 Americans. That is down 0.8% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,606.
#17,639
rank among US surnames
1,593
people in 2010
0.5
per 100,000 Americans
-0.8%
change since 2000 (was #16,480)
Who is named Rister
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
93% of people named Rister identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.9% as Black (not Hispanic).
- White (not Hispanic) 93%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.3%
- Black (not Hispanic) 1.9%
- Two or more races 1.7%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.8%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.3%
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Rister has the Soundex code R236, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code R236.
Questions
- How common is the surname Rister?
- 1,593 people in the United States had the surname Rister in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 193,814 Americans. It ranked 17,639th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Rister?
- In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Rister identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- Is the surname Rister getting more or less common?
- Less common. 1,606 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,593 in 2010, down 0.8%.