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The LUFF surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,454 17763 0.001 5
United States (1880 census) 402 11455 0.001 8
Change since 1880 +1052 -6308 0 -3
Other Countries
Australia 535 3013 0.003 33
United Kingdom 1,774 3252 0.004 39
Top States for LUFF by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Pennsylvania 207 6814 0.002 17
Florida 132 12528 0.001 8
Ohio 94 12742 0.001 8
California 89 23810 0.000 3
New York 63 26591 0.000 3
Top States for LUFF by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Delaware 61 2131 0.008 78
Idaho 32 5341 0.002 25
Alaska 14 6562 0.002 22
Nebraska 32 7889 0.002 19
Pennsylvania 207 6814 0.002 17

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

Classification and Origin of LUFF

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 35 2.41
White (Hispanic) 14 0.96
Asian/Pacific 10 0.69
Mixed Race 9 0.62
Native American/Alaskan 6 0.41
White (Caucasian) 1,380 94.91

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

Meaning of LUFF in historical publications

LUFF. Apparently an old personal name, whence Lufkins, and the local Luffingham, Luffincot, &c.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to LUFF

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as LUFF.

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 LUFF

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