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The SCHAFF surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 2,816 10465 0.001 10
United States (1880 census) 426 10963 0.001 9
Change since 1880 +2390 +498 0 +1
Other Countries
Australia 2 238770 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for SCHAFF by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
North Dakota 229 233 0.036 357
New York 198 9594 0.001 10
California 194 12829 0.001 6
Montana 173 553 0.019 192
Washington 171 4317 0.003 29
Top States for SCHAFF by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
North Dakota 229 233 0.036 357
Montana 173 553 0.019 192
South Dakota 34 3733 0.005 45
Wyoming 19 3505 0.004 38
Louisiana 154 3622 0.003 34

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

Classification and Origin of SCHAFF

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

Ethnic distribution of SCHAFF in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 28 0.99
Mixed Race 20 0.71
Asian/Pacific 14 0.5
Native American/Alaskan 8 0.28
Black/African American 5 0.18
White (Caucasian) 2,741 97.34

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

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

Meaning of SCHAFF in historical publications

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

Similar names to SCHAFF

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as SCHAFF.

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 SCHAFF

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