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The RYMER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 2,919 10148 0.001 11
United States (1880 census) 570 8699 0.001 11
Change since 1880 +2349 -1449 0 0
Other Countries
Australia 203 7448 0.001 12
United Kingdom 861 5932 0.002 19
Top States for RYMER by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Tennessee 530 1647 0.009 93
Florida 243 8082 0.002 15
California 222 11700 0.001 7
Georgia 168 4844 0.002 21
Wisconsin 156 5331 0.003 29
Top States for RYMER by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Tennessee 530 1647 0.009 93
West Virginia 73 2976 0.004 40
Wisconsin 156 5331 0.003 29
Utah 57 4617 0.003 26
Georgia 168 4844 0.002 21

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

Classification and Origin of RYMER

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 RYMER 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 RYMER 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 RYMER in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 112 3.84
Black/African American 84 2.88
Mixed Race 36 1.23
Asian/Pacific 13 0.45
Native American/Alaskan 10 0.34
White (Caucasian) 2,664 91.26

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

Meaning of RYMER in historical publications

RYMER. Doubtless a person skilled in making verses, like the far-famed Scotchman, Thomas the Rhymer. King Henry III. kept a court poet, or poet-laureate, called Master Henry the Versifier, and paid him one hundred shillings per annum for his poes3 Still earlier, Henry I. had a bard wbo wrote laudatory verses about his master, and was called AValo Versificator. Warton's Hist, of English Poetry, vol. i. p. 47. These old court-poets were called Archijoefcs.

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 RYMER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as RYMER.

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.

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Potential typos for RYMER

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