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The GRIFFING surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,188 20693 0 4
United States (1880 census) 756 6892 0.002 15
Change since 1880 +432 -13801 +N/A -11
Other Countries
Australia 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for GRIFFING by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Texas 127 12301 0.001 6
Mississippi 104 3052 0.004 37
New York 96 18437 0.001 5
Florida 90 17818 0.001 6
California 89 24261 0.000 3
Top States for GRIFFING by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Mississippi 104 3052 0.004 37
Montana 16 8320 0.002 18
Louisiana 78 6081 0.002 17
Connecticut 52 8443 0.002 15
Rhode Island 12 11171 0.001 11

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

Classification and Origin of GRIFFING

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

Ethnic distribution of GRIFFING in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 30 2.53
White (Hispanic) 28 2.36
Asian/Pacific 12 1.01
White (Caucasian) 1,105 93.01
Mixed Race Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

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

Meaning of GRIFFING in historical publications

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

Similar names to GRIFFING

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GRIFFING.

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 GRIFFING

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