The GRIFFITHS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	13,563	2444	0.005	50
United States (1880 census)	2,501	2428	0.005	50
Change since 1880	+11062	-16	0	0
Other Countries
Australia	9,533	122	0.058	583
United Kingdom	66,778	59	0.145	1,454

Top States for GRIFFITHS by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	1,307	2234	0.004	39
Pennsylvania	1,217	1045	0.010	99
New York	1,080	1566	0.006	57
Florida	1,053	1814	0.007	66
Ohio	807	1550	0.007	71
Top States for GRIFFITHS by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Utah	685	348	0.031	307
Idaho	162	970	0.013	125
Vermont	64	1582	0.011	105
Oregon	351	1079	0.010	103
Pennsylvania	1,217	1045	0.010	99

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

Classification and Origin of GRIFFITHS

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Wales

Language of origin: Welsh

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From name of parent

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

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	210	1.55
Mixed Race	180	1.33
Asian/Pacific	72	0.53
Native American/Alaskan	38	0.28
White (Caucasian)	12,048	88.83
Black/African American	1,015	7.48

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

Similar names to GRIFFITHS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GRIFFITHS.

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.