The GRIFFITH surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	77,429	369	0.029	287
United States (1880 census)	19,779	266	0.04	396
Change since 1880	+57650	-103	-0.011	-109
Other Countries
Australia	1,552	1055	0.009	95
United Kingdom	5,494	1142	0.012	120

Top States for GRIFFITH by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Texas	5,742	420	0.028	275
California	5,511	565	0.016	163
Ohio	5,345	199	0.047	471
Florida	4,518	394	0.028	283
Pennsylvania	4,161	250	0.034	339
Top States for GRIFFITH by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
West Virginia	1,505	126	0.083	832
Delaware	511	190	0.065	652
Kentucky	2,374	219	0.059	587
Tennessee	2,700	310	0.047	475
Ohio	5,345	199	0.047	471

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

Classification and Origin of GRIFFITH

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Wales

Language of origin: Welsh

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From given name or forename

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the GRIFFITH 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.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the GRIFFITH surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of GRIFFITH in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Native American/Alaskan	511	0.66
Asian/Pacific	286	0.37
White (Caucasian)	66,450	85.82
Black/African American	7,588	9.8
Mixed Race	1,254	1.62
White (Hispanic)	1,347	1.74

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

Similar names to GRIFFITH

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GRIFFITH.

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.