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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

'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.

Meaning of GRAFF in historical publications

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

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.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for GRAFF

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