How common is the surname Rupe?

3,572 people in the United States had the surname Rupe in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 86,435 Americans. It ranked 9,138th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Rupe?

In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Rupe identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Rupe getting more or less common?

More common. 3,446 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,572 in 2010, up 3.7%.

The surname Rupe

A surname, carried by 3,572 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex R100

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Rupe is more common than 94.4% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 3,572 people named Rupe in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 86,435 Americans. That is up 3.7% since 2000, when the Census counted 3,446.

#9,138

rank among US surnames

3,572

people in 2010

1.2

per 100,000 Americans

+3.7%

change since 2000 (was #8,766)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#9,134	Lathan	3,575	86,362
#9,135	McCusker	3,574	86,387
#9,137	Murtha	3,573	86,411
#9,138	Rupe	3,572	86,435
#9,139	Manalo	3,571	86,459

Who is named Rupe

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

94% of people named Rupe identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.8% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 94%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.5%
Two or more races 1.8%
American Indian and Alaska Native 1.1%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.4%

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 Rupe

Rupe has the Soundex code R100, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code R100.

Questions

How common is the surname Rupe?: 3,572 people in the United States had the surname Rupe in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 86,435 Americans. It ranked 9,138th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Rupe?: In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Rupe identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Rupe getting more or less common?: More common. 3,446 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,572 in 2010, up 3.7%.