The RIDDLE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	32,654	975	0.012	121
United States (1880 census)	7,510	800	0.015	150
Change since 1880	+25144	-175	-0.003	-29
Other Countries
Australia	877	1869	0.005	54
United Kingdom	1,914	3078	0.004	42

Top States for RIDDLE by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
North Carolina	2,430	473	0.030	302
Texas	2,317	1110	0.011	111
California	2,196	1529	0.006	65
Tennessee	1,819	480	0.032	320
South Carolina	1,554	397	0.039	387
Top States for RIDDLE by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
South Carolina	1,554	397	0.039	387
Kentucky	1,415	431	0.035	350
Alabama	1,474	501	0.033	331
Tennessee	1,819	480	0.032	320
West Virginia	564	483	0.031	312

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

Classification and Origin of RIDDLE

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Mixed Race	536	1.64
White (Hispanic)	467	1.43
Native American/Alaskan	346	1.06
Asian/Pacific	137	0.42
White (Caucasian)	29,336	89.84
Black/African American	1,835	5.62

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

Similar names to RIDDLE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as RIDDLE.

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.