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The PUFF surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,055 22723 0 4
United States (1880 census) 442 10668 0.001 9
Change since 1880 +613 -12055 +N/A -5
Other Countries
Australia 3 201406 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for PUFF by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New York 164 14958 0.001 9
Michigan 93 17526 0.001 9
Pennsylvania 83 22274 0.001 7
Indiana 66 13238 0.001 11
Missouri 66 13031 0.001 12
Top States for PUFF by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Alaska 14 10197 0.002 22
Missouri 66 13031 0.001 12
Minnesota 57 17808 0.001 12
Maine 14 12862 0.001 11
Indiana 66 13238 0.001 11

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

Classification and Origin of PUFF

Region of origin: Europe

Country of origin: Germany

Language of origin: German

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the PUFF 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.

Ethnic distribution of PUFF in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 993 94.12
Black/African American 33 3.13
White (Hispanic) 13 1.23
Mixed Race 12 1.14
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

Meaning of PUFF in historical publications

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

Similar names to PUFF

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PUFF.

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 PUFF

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