How common is the surname Rumph?

3,218 people in the United States had the surname Rumph in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 95,943 Americans. It ranked 10,019th of 162,253 surnames.

Is the surname Rumph getting more or less common?

Less common. 3,256 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,218 in 2010, down 1.2%.

The surname Rumph

A surname, carried by 3,218 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex R510

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Rumph is more common than 93.8% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 3,218 people named Rumph in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 95,943 Americans. That is down 1.2% since 2000, when the Census counted 3,256.

#10,019

rank among US surnames

3,218

people in 2010

1.1

per 100,000 Americans

-1.2%

change since 2000 (was #9,213)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#10,011	Frawley	3,221	95,854
#10,013	Eisele	3,220	95,884
#10,015	Ducote	3,219	95,913
#10,019	Billman	3,218	95,943
#10,021	Meltzer	3,216	96,003
#10,023	Baynes	3,215	96,033
#10,026	Ullman	3,213	96,093

Who is named Rumph

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

64% of people named Rumph identified as Black (not Hispanic), 33% as white (not Hispanic) and 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Black (not Hispanic) 64%
White (not Hispanic) 33%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.9%
Two or more races 1.6%

The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American are not shown.

Compare: most common surnames among Black Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

Surnames that sound like Rumph

Rumpf

Rumph has the Soundex code R510, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code R510.

Questions

How common is the surname Rumph?: 3,218 people in the United States had the surname Rumph in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 95,943 Americans. It ranked 10,019th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Rumph?: In the 2010 Census, 64% of people named Rumph identified as Black (not Hispanic), and 33% as white (not Hispanic).
Is the surname Rumph getting more or less common?: Less common. 3,256 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,218 in 2010, down 1.2%.