# Rimes

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This article is about the surname. For the singular, see [Rime (disambiguation)](/source/Rime_(disambiguation)).

**Rimes** is a surname. It is an [English surname](/source/English_surname) of unexplained origin, as well as a [Huguenot](/source/Huguenot) surname which possibly originated as a [habitational surname](/source/Habitational_surname) from the city of [Reims](/source/Reims). Variant spellings include [Rhymes](/source/Rhymes_(surname)). Statistics compiled by [Patrick Hanks](/source/Patrick_Hanks) on the basis of the [2011 United Kingdom census](/source/2011_United_Kingdom_census) and the [Census of Ireland 2011](/source/Census_of_Ireland_2011) found 230 people with the surname Rimes on the island of [Great Britain](/source/Great_Britain) and four on the island of [Ireland](/source/Ireland). In the [1881 United Kingdom census](/source/1881_United_Kingdom_census) there were 186 bearers of the surname, primarily at [Somerset](/source/Somerset).[1] The [2010 United States census](/source/2010_United_States_census) found 1,108 people with the surname Rimes, making it the 23,065th-most-common surname in the country. This represented an increase from 1,006 people (23,530th-most-common) in the [2000 census](/source/2000_United_States_census). In both US censuses, roughly eight-tenths of the bearers of the surname identified as [non-Hispanic white](/source/Non-Hispanic_white), and one-tenth as non-Hispanic black.[2]

People with this name include:

- [Susan Rimes](/source/Susan_Rimes) (born 1959), American tennis player
- [Leonardo Rimes da Cunha](/source/Leonardo_Rimes_da_Cunha) (born 1979), Brazilian footballer
- [LeAnn Rimes](/source/LeAnn_Rimes) (born 1982), American singer-songwriter
- [Irina Rimes](/source/Irina_Rimes) (born 1992), Moldovan singer-songwriter

## See also

- [Toby Rimes](/source/Toby_Rimes), a mythical poodle
- [Shonda Rhimes](/source/Shonda_Rhimes) (born 1970), American television producer
- [Rime (disambiguation)](/source/Rime_(disambiguation))

## References

1. Hanks, Patrick (ed.) (2016). [*The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland*](https://books.google.com/books?id=0AyDDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA2256). Oxford University Press. p. 2256. ISBN 9780192527479.

1. ["How common is your last name? (Rimes)"](https://projects.newsday.com/databases/long-island/census-last-names/?where=name^Rimes&offset=0). *Newsday*. Retrieved 5 September 2018.

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