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The GRIFFITH surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 77,429 369 0.029 287
United States (1880 census) 19,779 266 0.04 396
Change since 1880 +57650 -103 -0.011 -109
Other Countries
Australia 1,552 1055 0.009 95
United Kingdom 5,494 1142 0.012 120
Top States for GRIFFITH by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Texas 5,742 420 0.028 275
California 5,511 565 0.016 163
Ohio 5,345 199 0.047 471
Florida 4,518 394 0.028 283
Pennsylvania 4,161 250 0.034 339
Top States for GRIFFITH by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
West Virginia 1,505 126 0.083 832
Delaware 511 190 0.065 652
Kentucky 2,374 219 0.059 587
Tennessee 2,700 310 0.047 475
Ohio 5,345 199 0.047 471

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

Classification and Origin of GRIFFITH

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Wales

Language of origin: Welsh

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From given name or forename

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the GRIFFITH surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the GRIFFITH surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of GRIFFITH in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Native American/Alaskan 511 0.66
Asian/Pacific 286 0.37
White (Caucasian) 66,450 85.82
Black/African American 7,588 9.8
Mixed Race 1,254 1.62
White (Hispanic) 1,347 1.74

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

Meaning of GRIFFITH in historical publications

(origin: Welsh and Cor. Br.) One who has strong faith, from Cryf, Welsh, strong, and ffyd, faith.

Arthur, William (1857) An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names. New York: Sheldon, Blakeman. Public Domain.


Similar names to GRIFFITH

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GRIFFITH.

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 GRIFFITH

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