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    The surname Ruble

    A surname, carried by 6,503 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex R140

    Ruble: #5,355 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Ruble #5,355, 6,503 people Ruble: #5,355 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Ruble #5,355, 6,503 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Ruble is more common than 96.7% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 6,503 people named Ruble in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 47,477 Americans. That is up 3.7% since 2000, when the Census counted 6,270.

    #5,355
    rank among US surnames
    6,503
    people in 2010
    2.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    +3.7%
    change since 2000 (was #5,135)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #5,348Mohler6,50647,456
    #5,352Strait6,50547,463
    #5,353Rashid6,50447,470
    #5,355Ruble6,50347,477
    #5,356Doane6,50147,492
    #5,359Wyant6,49847,514

    Who is named Ruble

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

    95% of people named Ruble identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.4% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 95%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.5%
    • Two or more races 1.4%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 1.3%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 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 Ruble

    Ruble has the Soundex code R140, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code R140.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Ruble?
    6,503 people in the United States had the surname Ruble in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 47,477 Americans. It ranked 5,355th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Ruble?
    In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Ruble identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    Is the surname Ruble getting more or less common?
    More common. 6,270 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 6,503 in 2010, up 3.7%.