The RAYNER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	3,748	8145	0.001	14
United States (1880 census)	809	6484	0.002	16
Change since 1880	+2939	-1661	-0.001	-2
Other Countries
Australia	3,140	490	0.019	192
United Kingdom	9,677	620	0.021	211

Top States for RAYNER by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	364	7139	0.001	11
Mississippi	273	1444	0.010	96
Michigan	260	4397	0.003	26
Florida	259	7116	0.002	16
Ohio	185	6944	0.002	16
Top States for RAYNER by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Mississippi	273	1444	0.010	96
Vermont	20	4527	0.003	33
Rhode Island	30	5067	0.003	29
Maine	34	4807	0.003	27
Oklahoma	91	4596	0.003	26

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

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

Classification and Origin of RAYNER

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 RAYNER 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 RAYNER 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 RAYNER in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	559	14.91
White (Hispanic)	61	1.63
Mixed Race	42	1.12
Asian/Pacific	14	0.37
Native American/Alaskan	14	0.37
White (Caucasian)	3,058	81.59

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

Similar names to RAYNER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as RAYNER.

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.