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    The surname Runner

    A surname, carried by 1,670 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex R560

    Runner: #17,014 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Runner #17,014, 1,670 people Runner: #17,014 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Runner #17,014, 1,670 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Runner is more common than 89.5% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,670 people named Runner in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 184,878 Americans. That is up 5.5% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,583.

    #17,014
    rank among US surnames
    1,670
    people in 2010
    0.6
    per 100,000 Americans
    +5.5%
    change since 2000 (was #16,655)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #17,005Kebede1,671184,767
    #17,014Arocha1,670184,878

    Who is named Runner

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

    84% of people named Runner identified as white (not Hispanic), 10% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.6% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 84%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 10%
    • Two or more races 2.6%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.7%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.9%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.8%

    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 Runner

    Runner has the Soundex code R560, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code R560.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Runner?
    1,670 people in the United States had the surname Runner in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 184,878 Americans. It ranked 17,014th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Runner?
    In the 2010 Census, 84% of people named Runner identified as white (not Hispanic), and 10% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Runner getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,583 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,670 in 2010, up 5.5%.