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The GRIFFES surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 362 53556 0 1
United States (1880 census) 144 24437 0 3
Change since 1880 +218 -29119 +N/A -2
Other Countries
Australia 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for GRIFFES by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Michigan 188 7418 0.002 19
California 30 74418 0.000 1
Texas 20 56985 0.000 1
Washington 13 53035 0.000 2
Arizona 12 46048 0.000 2
Top States for GRIFFES by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Michigan 188 7418 0.002 19
Vermont 10 8795 0.002 16
Montana 4 30918 0.000 4
New Hampshire 5 29672 0.000 4
Utah 8 22463 0.000 4

Notes

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

Classification and Origin of GRIFFES

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the GRIFFES surname.

Ethnic distribution of GRIFFES in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 346 95.58
Mixed Race 6 1.66
White (Hispanic) 5 1.38
Asian/Pacific None reported 0
Black/African American Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

GRIFFES is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Meaning of GRIFFES in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of GRIFFES.

Similar names to GRIFFES

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GRIFFES.

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.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for GRIFFES

The following words are slight variants of GRIFFES that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.