The CLIFF surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	2,375	12058	0.001	9
United States (1880 census)	739	7040	0.001	15
Change since 1880	+1636	-5018	0	-6
Other Countries
Australia	502	3209	0.003	31
United Kingdom	2,888	2147	0.006	63

Top States for CLIFF by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	255	10090	0.001	8
Illinois	184	6980	0.001	15
New York	166	11316	0.001	9
Florida	145	12172	0.001	9
Ohio	119	10868	0.001	10
Top States for CLIFF by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Idaho	64	2830	0.005	49
Wisconsin	103	8224	0.002	19
Montana	15	9461	0.002	17
Tennessee	94	6166	0.002	17
Rhode Island	16	8995	0.002	15

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

Classification and Origin of CLIFF

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	252	10.61
Native American/Alaskan	46	1.94
White (Hispanic)	41	1.73
Mixed Race	21	0.88
Asian/Pacific	10	0.42
White (Caucasian)	2,005	84.42

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

Similar names to CLIFF

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as CLIFF.

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.