Ries

At the 2020 census, 6,949 Americans bore the surname Ries — 4,922nd out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 43,000.

By the numbers

People: 6,949
Rank: 4,922nd
How common: 1 in 43,000
Per 100,000: 2.3

Where the name comes from

Origin German

As a south German and Jewish surname, from the noun Riese (“giant”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 90.8%
Hispanic or Latino 3.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.9%
Black, not Hispanic 1.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Ries

Ferdinand Ries (1784–1838)German composer
Adam Ries (1492–1559)German mathematician
Julien Ries (1920–2013)Belgian cardinal and historian
Teresa Feoderovna Ries (1866–1956)Russian-born Austrian artist
Al Ries (1926–2022)American advertising executive
Michel Ries (born 1998)Luxembourgian bicycle racer
Eric Ries (born 1979)entrepreneur
Franz Anton Ries (1755–1846)German violinist

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

Surnames like Ries

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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.