Rhee

4,072 people in the United States were counted with the surname Rhee in the 2020 census, making it the 7,811th most common in the country. That is about one person in 73,400.

By the numbers

People: 4,072
Rank: 7,811th
How common: 1 in 73,400
Per 100,000: 1.4

Where the name comes from

For the surname, borrowed from Korean 이.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Rhee described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 89.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 5.0%
White, not Hispanic 4.0%
Hispanic or Latino 0.8%
Black, not Hispanic 0.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.02%

Notable people called Rhee

Syngman Rhee (1875–1965)President of South Korea from 1948 to 1960
Phillip Rhee (born 1960)American actor

People named Rhee with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Rhee

Rhea

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.