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The GRAF surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 13,558 2445 0.005 50
United States (1880 census) 1,962 3026 0.004 39
Change since 1880 +11596 +581 +0.001 +11
Other Countries
Australia 377 4215 0.002 23
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for GRAF by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Wisconsin 1,207 380 0.023 225
California 940 3162 0.003 28
Illinois 937 1280 0.008 75
Texas 839 2617 0.004 40
New York 788 2263 0.004 42
Top States for GRAF by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Wisconsin 1,207 380 0.023 225
North Dakota 80 995 0.012 125
Minnesota 492 1047 0.010 100
South Dakota 74 1275 0.010 98
Indiana 572 1226 0.009 94

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

Classification and Origin of GRAF

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 GRAF 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 GRAF in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 230 1.7
Black/African American 125 0.92
Mixed Race 121 0.89
Asian/Pacific 72 0.53
Native American/Alaskan 20 0.15
White (Caucasian) 12,991 95.82

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

Meaning of GRAF in historical publications

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

Similar names to GRAF

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GRAF.

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 GRAF

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