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The RAPER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 4,895 6404 0.002 18
United States (1880 census) 916 5877 0.002 18
Change since 1880 +3979 -527 0 0
Other Countries
Australia 277 5613 0.002 17
United Kingdom 1,575 3597 0.003 34
Top States for RAPER by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
North Carolina 745 1683 0.009 93
Tennessee 616 1477 0.011 108
Georgia 373 2692 0.005 46
Texas 370 5688 0.002 18
Oklahoma 327 1527 0.009 95
Top States for RAPER by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Tennessee 616 1477 0.011 108
Oklahoma 327 1527 0.009 95
North Carolina 745 1683 0.009 93
Arkansas 229 1650 0.009 86
Alabama 257 2606 0.006 58

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called RAPER live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called RAPER represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called RAPER in North Carolina than any other state, but you are more likely to find a RAPER by picking someone at random in Tennessee than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of RAPER

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Occupational Name

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the RAPER surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the RAPER surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of RAPER in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 146 2.98
Mixed Race 86 1.76
Native American/Alaskan 78 1.59
White (Hispanic) 55 1.12
Asian/Pacific 13 0.27
White (Caucasian) 4,517 92.28

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the RAPER surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of RAPER in historical publications

RAPER. An old spelling of Roper, which see.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to RAPER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as RAPER.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for RAPER

The following words are slight variants of RAPER that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.