Richter

Richter is the 1,216th most common surname in the United States, shared by 28,434 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 10,500.

By the numbers

People: 28,434
Rank: 1,216th
How common: 1 in 10,500
Per 100,000: 9.5

Where the name comes from

Origin German

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 91.8%
Hispanic or Latino 3.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
Black, not Hispanic 0.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Richter

Burton Richter (1931–2018)American physicist
Charles Francis Richter (1900–1985)American seismologist
Gerhard Richter (born 1932)German visual artist
Sviatoslav Richter (1915–1997)Soviet pianist
Andy Richter (born 1966)American actor and comedian
Max Richter (born 1966)British composer
Hans Richter (1843–1916)Austrian-Hungarian orchestral and operatic conductor
Karl Richter (1926–1981)German organist, harpsichordist, and conductor

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

Surnames like Richter

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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.