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The GRIFFETH surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,638 16219 0.001 6
United States (1880 census) 2,012 2969 0.004 40
Change since 1880 -374 -13250 -0.003 -34
Other Countries
Australia 2 257622 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for GRIFFETH by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Georgia 335 2960 0.004 41
Maine 125 1942 0.010 98
Texas 121 13883 0.001 6
Ohio 82 16500 0.001 7
Florida 71 23989 0.000 4
Top States for GRIFFETH by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Maine 125 1942 0.010 98
Idaho 65 3017 0.005 50
Georgia 335 2960 0.004 41
Alaska 16 6442 0.003 26
Utah 49 5249 0.002 22

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

Classification and Origin of GRIFFETH

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

Ethnic distribution of GRIFFETH in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 105 6.41
White (Hispanic) 17 1.04
Mixed Race 16 0.98
White (Caucasian) 1,493 91.15
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

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

Meaning of GRIFFETH in historical publications

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

Similar names to GRIFFETH

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GRIFFETH.

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 GRIFFETH

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