Rieger

Rieger is the 6,150th most common surname in the United States, shared by 5,340 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 56,000.

By the numbers

People: 5,340
Rank: 6,150th
How common: 1 in 56,000
Per 100,000: 1.8

Where the name comes from

Origin German

Borrowed from German Rieger.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 92.4%
Hispanic or Latino 3.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
Black, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Rieger

František Ladislav Rieger (1818–1903)Czech politician and publicist
Adolf Rieger (1899–1956)Olympic medalist in wrestling
Silvia Rieger (born 1970)German hurdler

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

Surnames like Rieger

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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.