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    The surname Riter

    A surname, carried by 1,368 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex R360

    Riter: #19,697 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Riter #19,697, 1,368 people Riter: #19,697 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Riter #19,697, 1,368 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Riter is more common than 87.9% of them.

    Origin

    From the German surname, probably a variant of Ritter or Reiter.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,368 people named Riter in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 225,691 Americans. That is up 20% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,141.

    #19,697
    rank among US surnames
    1,368
    people in 2010
    0.5
    per 100,000 Americans
    +19.9%
    change since 2000 (was #21,381)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #19,688Matuszak1,369225,526
    #19,697Abbe1,368225,691
    #19,703Antillon1,367225,856

    Who is named Riter

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

    94% of people named Riter identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.5% as two or more races and 1.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 94%
    • Two or more races 2.5%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.5%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.7%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 0.4%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Surnames that sound like Riter

    Riter has the Soundex code R360, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code R360.

    Questions

    Where does the surname Riter come from?
    From the German surname, probably a variant of Ritter or Reiter.
    How common is the surname Riter?
    1,368 people in the United States had the surname Riter in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 225,691 Americans. It ranked 19,697th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Riter?
    In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Riter identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.5% as two or more races.
    Is the surname Riter getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,141 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,368 in 2010, up 20%.