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The GRAEF surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,379 18484 0.001 5
United States (1880 census) 254 16156 0.001 5
Change since 1880 +1125 -2328 0 0
Other Countries
Australia 24 45479 0 1
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for GRAEF by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 130 17113 0.000 4
Texas 114 13216 0.001 5
Wisconsin 113 6903 0.002 21
Ohio 104 11614 0.001 9
Florida 99 16100 0.001 6
Top States for GRAEF by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Wisconsin 113 6903 0.002 21
Delaware 16 7675 0.002 20
Ohio 104 11614 0.001 9
Arizona 46 10934 0.001 9
Missouri 50 12214 0.001 9

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

Classification and Origin of GRAEF

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

Ethnic distribution of GRAEF in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 19 1.38
Mixed Race 15 1.09
Asian/Pacific 8 0.58
White (Caucasian) 1,332 96.59
Black/African American Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

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

Meaning of GRAEF in historical publications

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

Similar names to GRAEF

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GRAEF.

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 GRAEF

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