The GRAFF surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	12,601	2637	0.005	47
United States (1880 census)	3,723	1650	0.007	74
Change since 1880	+8878	-987	-0.002	-27
Other Countries
Australia	93	15132	0.001	6
United Kingdom	0			0

Top States for GRAFF by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	999	3077	0.003	29
Pennsylvania	995	1430	0.008	81
Illinois	857	1445	0.007	69
New York	763	2433	0.004	40
Florida	686	2946	0.004	43
Top States for GRAFF by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
South Dakota	216	282	0.029	286
North Dakota	87	919	0.014	135
Montana	119	877	0.013	132
Minnesota	625	786	0.013	127
Nebraska	208	868	0.012	122

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

Classification and Origin of GRAFF

Language of origin: Hebrew

Religious origin: Jewish

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

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	180	1.43
Mixed Race	140	1.11
Asian/Pacific	81	0.64
Black/African American	33	0.26
Native American/Alaskan	24	0.19
White (Caucasian)	12,144	96.37

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

Similar names to GRAFF

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GRAFF.

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.