Riener

surname · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/ɹinɝ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Riener is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • FIFinland1 in 557K(measured from records)
  • DKDenmark1 in 838K
  • USUnited States1 in 1.3M

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

256 people, 2010

Sources
20 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 557K (inferred from the name graph)

Finland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Riener counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Riener is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States2561 in 1.3M275Riener11
AR Argentina311 in 1.5M31Riener20
FI Finland101 in 557K10—2
DK Denmark71 in 838K7——
CZ Czechia61 in 1.8M6——

256 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); MVČR — living population register 2017. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1850190019502000August Riener, b. 1867Josef Riener, b. 1894Rudolf H. Riener, b. 1942Barbara Riener, b. 1962Gerhard Riener, b. 1979Cordian Riener, b. 1981

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

How to address them(machine-generated)

FormalDear Mr Riener,
InformalHi Riener,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 18 sources across 11 countries.

Official registers attesting Riener
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020275#75,616
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010256#75,317
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000232#76,946
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—31—
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—10#44,636
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—7#53,546
CZ CzechiaMVČR — living population register 2017—6#107,285
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 2

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

How do you pronounce Riener?
A machine transcription gives /ɹinɝ/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Riener have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 256 people named Riener, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled riener.
Where is Riener most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Riener is densest in Finland — about 1 in 557 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Riener?
In the United States, the national register counted 256 people named Riener in 2010, about 1 in 1.3 million residents.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Riener”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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