The Rhinehart surname

In the 2010 U.S. Census, 5,707 people carried this name — #6,025 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 51,800 people counted. That is up 6% from 5,405 in 2000.

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What the name means

The meaning of the Rhinehart surname

A surname from German [in turn transferred from the given name], variant of Reinhardt.

Americanized. Altered by folk etymology under the influence of the river Rhine.

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Rhinehart» (English), by Wiktionary contributors · licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) · excerpt, lightly adapted.

In the first U.S. census, 1790

In 1790, Rhinehart was counted together with Rinehart: 87 families in all.

Each family is counted by its head. About 481 people lived in those households, 5.5 to a family on average. The census counted these spellings together: Rinehart, Rainhart, Raneheart, Reenhart, Reihart, Reinard, Reinhard, Reinhart, Rhinehart, Rhineheart, Rienhart, Rignhart, Rinard, Rinehard, Rinehast, Rineheart, Rinehot, Rinert, Rinhart, Rynehart, Rynhot. The table lists white heads of families only, in the twelve states whose 1790 records survive; Virginia’s figures come from state lists of 1782–1785.

Families, by state

Pennsylvania 56
New York 9
Maryland 9
North Carolina 7
Virginia 4
South Carolina 2

U.S. Census Bureau, «A Century of Population Growth from the First Census of the United States to the Twelfth, 1790–1900» (Washington, 1909), table 111, p. 259 — public domain · names carried by at least 100 white persons in 1790.

In print

Rhinehart in American newspapers,
1909–1921.

Newspaper page from Hickory Daily Record carrying the name Rhinehart
Hickory Daily Record 1921-05-05
Newspaper page from The Evening Statesman carrying the name Rhinehart
The Evening Statesman 1909-06-25
Newspaper page from The Brookings Register carrying the name Rhinehart
The Brookings Register 1918-11-07

Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 14,340 pages in all carry the name.

In print

Rhinehart in Australian newspapers,
1890s–1930s.

25 articles name a Mr, Mrs or Miss Rhinehart. The most, 11, date from the 1890s.

Articles, by state

New South Wales 13
South Australia 5
Queensland 3
ACT (Canberra) 1
Victoria 1
Western Australia 1

Trove, National Library of Australia (trove.nla.gov.au) · articles in its digitised newspapers that name a Mr, Mrs or Miss Rhinehart.

Who carried it

People named Rhinehart,
with a public archive behind them.

  • Darmon Artelle Rhinehart 1887–1954 · radiologist
  • Barton Arthur Rhinehart 1895–1964 · writer

Wikidata (CC0) · 3 lives in all are documented under this name.

In the public record

People named Rhinehart,
in the records of the United States.

Soldiers, farmers, migrants and neighbours who carried the name and left a trace in public archives. Everyone shown here died long ago or was born more than a century ago.

United States427 records

427 records of the Rhinehart name in the United States
  • U.S. Army enlistment records, World War II 189
  • U.S. veterans' cemetery records, burials to 2001 77
  • New York City birth, marriage and death certificates 74
  • New York State death index (outside NYC), 1957–2001 73
  • U.S. alien registration index, 1940–1955 7
  • Passenger arrivals in the United States, 1820–1912 3
  • U.S. service members who died in the Vietnam War 2
  • U.S. service members who died in the Korean War 1
  • New York State police and firefighter memorial rolls 1
  1. A United States Selective Service registration card, 1942
    Example: U.S. registration card, 1942
    Military record James E. Rhinehart

    Born 1923 in South Carolina. Enlisted 1943 at Fort Jackson Columbia; warehouseman. U.S. Army veteran of World War II; died 1996, buried at Baraber Memoirial Cemetery, Rock Hill, South Carolina.

    U.S. National Archives, WWII Army Enlistment Records (public domain); U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0)
  2. Names engraved on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Washington, D.C.
    Example: U.S. war memorial
    War record Joseph Lee Rhinehart

    Born 1947; from St Marys, West Virginia. U.S. Marine Corps, rifleman; died of wounds 1967 in Quang Tri, South Vietnam.

    U.S. National Archives, Defense Casualty Analysis System (public domain)
  3. A passenger manifest of the S.S. St. Paul, arriving at New York in 1903
    Example: passenger manifest, 1903
    Passenger record Joseph Rhinehart

    Arrived at New York in 1882 aboard the Anchoria from Glasgow, aged 34; physician.

    U.S. National Archives, Castle Garden Immigration Center Collection, Ship Passenger Records (unrestricted)

Showing 3 of 427 records for Rhinehart in the United States.

Counts: U.S. National Archives, WWII Army Enlistment Records (public domain) · U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0) · NYC Department of Records & Information Services, Historical Vital Records (NYC Open Data) · New York State Department of Health, Genealogical Research Death Index · U.S. National Archives, Flexoline Index Data File (public domain) · U.S. National Archives, Castle Garden Immigration Center Collection, Ship Passenger Records (unrestricted) · U.S. National Archives, Defense Casualty Analysis System (public domain) · New York State, Open NY (police and firefighter memorial rolls). Example pages, not the records of the people shown: U.S. Selective Service registration card, 1942 (public domain); Vietnam Veterans Memorial, photo by U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Michael J. Carden, 2009 (public domain); Passenger manifest of the S.S. St. Paul, New York, 1903 (public domain).

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