Ritter

31,649 people in the United States were counted with the surname Ritter in the 2020 census, making it the 1,086th most common in the country. That is about one person in 9,444.

By the numbers

People: 31,649
Rank: 1,086th
How common: 1 in 9,444
Per 100,000: 10.6

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 Ritter described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 89.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.2%
Hispanic or Latino 3.2%
Black, not Hispanic 2.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Ritter

Carl Ritter (1779–1859)German geographer
Krysten Ritter (born 1981)American actress
Thelma Ritter (1902–1969)American actress and vaudevillian
Johann Wilhelm Ritter (1776–1810)German chemist, physicist and philosopher
John Ritter (1948–2003)American actor
Paul Ritter (1966–2021)English actor
Jason Ritter (born 1980)American actor
Louise Ritter (born 1958)American high jumper

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

Surnames like Ritter

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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.