The surname Running
A surname, carried by 1,424 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex R552
Origin
A surname.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 1,424 people named Running in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 216,816 Americans. That is up 1.3% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,406.
#19,105
rank among US surnames
1,424
people in 2010
0.5
per 100,000 Americans
+1.3%
change since 2000 (was #18,230)
Who is named Running
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
92% of people named Running identified as white (not Hispanic), 4.1% as American Indian and Alaska Native and 2.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- White (not Hispanic) 92%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 4.1%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.3%
- Two or more races 0.9%
- Black (not Hispanic) 0.7%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.3%
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Running has the Soundex code R552, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code R552.
Questions
- How common is the surname Running?
- 1,424 people in the United States had the surname Running in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 216,816 Americans. It ranked 19,105th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Running?
- In the 2010 Census, 92% of people named Running identified as white (not Hispanic), and 4.1% as American Indian and Alaska Native.
- Is the surname Running getting more or less common?
- More common. 1,406 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,424 in 2010, up 1.3%.