Last Name RITTER

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Meaning	Occupational. Rutter. German 'ritter,' a rider, i.e. a trooper; 'rutter,' a rider, a trooper, a name given to mercenary soldiers engaged from Brabant, etc. The same as 'Ruyter,' a knight, a chevalier.

Origin	English, Jewish, Danish, German, Polish, Swiss, Irish, Austrian, Belgian, Hungarian

Rank	970 (2000 US census)	1,131 (1990 US census)

Count	32,864 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that

94.11%, or 30928 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
2.86%, or 940 total occurrences, as black,
0.36%, or 118 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
0.38%, or 125 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
1.1%, or 362 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
1.2%, or 394 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.

How many distinct last names exist in the United States of America?

How does one estimate/guess that number? The first source that comes to mind is the result of the latest available census. We know that 2000 year census presents us with a little over 150,000 unique surnames. The least po...

Census 2000: how many distinct surnames are there?

Even after applying various edits and acceptance criteria to the names, there are a sizable number of unique names in the population. Over 6 million last names were identified. Many of these names were either unique (occurred once)...

Shortest last names

The 2000 USA census contains no surnames with ONE character. The shortest last names there have at least two characters in them. We found 175 of those. It does not mean that a one character name does not exist. The census data only contain surnames that occurred at lea...