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The NEFF surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 22,509 1455 0.008 83
United States (1880 census) 7,452 812 0.015 149
Change since 1880 +15057 -643 -0.007 -66
Other Countries
Australia 38 31579 0 2
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for NEFF by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Ohio 2,838 398 0.025 250
Pennsylvania 2,410 480 0.020 196
California 1,457 2138 0.004 43
Florida 1,239 1626 0.008 78
Illinois 1,053 1161 0.008 85
Top States for NEFF by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Ohio 2,838 398 0.025 250
Pennsylvania 2,410 480 0.020 196
West Virginia 344 794 0.019 190
Indiana 1,052 641 0.017 173
Utah 355 838 0.016 159

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

Classification and Origin of NEFF

Region of origin: Europe

Country of origin: Germany

Language of origin: German

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

Ethnic distribution of NEFF in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 288 1.28
Mixed Race 248 1.1
Black/African American 182 0.81
Native American/Alaskan 135 0.6
Asian/Pacific 117 0.52
White (Caucasian) 21,541 95.7

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

Meaning of NEFF in historical publications

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

Similar names to NEFF

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as NEFF.

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 NEFF

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