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The surname Rumble

A surname, carried by 1,851 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex R514

Rumble: #15,748 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Rumble #15,748, 1,851 people Rumble: #15,748 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Rumble #15,748, 1,851 people
Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Rumble is more common than 90.3% of them.

Origin

A variant of Rumbold, Rumbel or Rumpel.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,851 people named Rumble in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 166,799 Americans. That is up 4.0% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,779.

#15,748
rank among US surnames
1,851
people in 2010
0.6
per 100,000 Americans
+4%
change since 2000 (was #15,194)
RankSurnamePeople1 in
#15,743Blossom1,852166,709
#15,748Grondin1,851166,799

Who is named Rumble

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

84% of people named Rumble identified as white (not Hispanic), 13% as Black (not Hispanic) and 1.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

  • White (not Hispanic) 84%
  • Black (not Hispanic) 13%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.5%
  • Two or more races 1.4%
The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American are not shown.

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 Rumble

Rumble has the Soundex code R514, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code R514.

Questions

Where does the surname Rumble come from?
A variant of Rumbold, Rumbel or Rumpel.
How common is the surname Rumble?
1,851 people in the United States had the surname Rumble in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 166,799 Americans. It ranked 15,748th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Rumble?
In the 2010 Census, 84% of people named Rumble identified as white (not Hispanic), and 13% as Black (not Hispanic).
Is the surname Rumble getting more or less common?
More common. 1,779 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,851 in 2010, up 4.0%.