The RICE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	146,440	169	0.054	543
United States (1880 census)	46,047	90	0.092	921
Change since 1880	+100393	-79	-0.038	-378
Other Countries
Australia	3,269	469	0.02	200
United Kingdom	14,370	413	0.031	313

Top States for RICE by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	10,059	285	0.030	297
Texas	8,574	279	0.041	411
Ohio	8,334	98	0.073	734
Florida	7,213	234	0.045	451
Pennsylvania	6,690	125	0.054	545
Top States for RICE by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Kentucky	4,725	78	0.117	1,169
South Carolina	4,233	113	0.106	1,055
Alabama	4,280	134	0.096	962
Vermont	565	81	0.093	928
Maine	1,169	151	0.092	917

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

Classification and Origin of RICE

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Ireland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the RICE 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 RICE 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 RICE in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Native American/Alaskan	952	0.65
Asian/Pacific	586	0.4
White (Caucasian)	116,639	79.65
Black/African American	23,811	16.26
Mixed Race	2,211	1.51
White (Hispanic)	2,226	1.52

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

Similar names to RICE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as RICE.

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.