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    The surname Runion

    A surname, carried by 3,154 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex R550

    Runion: #10,219 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Runion #10,219, 3,154 people Runion: #10,219 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Runion #10,219, 3,154 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Runion is more common than 93.7% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 3,154 people named Runion in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 97,890 Americans. That is up 1.8% since 2000, when the Census counted 3,097.

    #10,219
    rank among US surnames
    3,154
    people in 2010
    1.1
    per 100,000 Americans
    +1.8%
    change since 2000 (was #9,630)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #10,211Broadus3,15697,828
    #10,215Shue3,15597,859
    #10,219Greeson3,15497,890
    #10,224Michelson3,15397,921
    #10,228Trammel3,15297,952

    Who is named Runion

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

    95% of people named Runion identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.5% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 95%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.8%
    • Two or more races 1.5%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 1.0%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.3%

    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 Runion

    Runion has the Soundex code R550, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code R550.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Runion?
    3,154 people in the United States had the surname Runion in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 97,890 Americans. It ranked 10,219th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Runion?
    In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Runion identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    Is the surname Runion getting more or less common?
    More common. 3,097 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,154 in 2010, up 1.8%.