The PFAFF surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	6,282	5129	0.002	23
United States (1880 census)	1,402	4067	0.003	28
Change since 1880	+4880	-1062	-0.001	-5
Other Countries
Australia	36	33049	0	2
United Kingdom	0			0

Top States for PFAFF by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Wisconsin	642	907	0.012	120
Pennsylvania	433	3472	0.004	35
Ohio	387	3578	0.003	34
California	384	7055	0.001	11
Illinois	377	3395	0.003	30
Top States for PFAFF by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
North Dakota	171	370	0.027	266
Wisconsin	642	907	0.012	120
Idaho	77	2358	0.006	60
Wyoming	27	2323	0.005	55
South Dakota	41	3009	0.005	54

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

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

Classification and Origin of PFAFF

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the PFAFF 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 PFAFF 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 PFAFF in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	69	1.1
Mixed Race	51	0.81
Native American/Alaskan	37	0.59
Asian/Pacific	24	0.38
Black/African American	16	0.25
White (Caucasian)	6,085	96.86

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

Similar names to PFAFF

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PFAFF.

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.