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The RAFFA surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,215 20343 0 4
United States (1880 census) 20 73860 0 0
Change since 1880 +1195 +53517 +N/A +N/A
Other Countries
Australia 87 16081 0.001 5
United Kingdom 25 28045 0 1
Top States for RAFFA by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New York 216 8656 0.001 11
New Jersey 158 6016 0.002 19
Florida 157 11232 0.001 10
Massachusetts 157 5183 0.002 25
Pennsylvania 88 16046 0.001 7
Top States for RAFFA by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Rhode Island 34 4567 0.003 32
Massachusetts 157 5183 0.002 25
New Jersey 158 6016 0.002 19
New York 216 8656 0.001 11
New Hampshire 13 11087 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 RAFFA live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called RAFFA represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called RAFFA in New York than any other state, but you are more likely to find a RAFFA by picking someone at random in Rhode Island than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of RAFFA

Region of origin: Europe

Country of origin: Italy

Language of origin: Italian

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

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 29 2.39
Mixed Race 13 1.07
Asian/Pacific 7 0.58
White (Caucasian) 1,159 95.39
Black/African American Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

Meaning of RAFFA in historical publications

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

Similar names to RAFFA

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as RAFFA.

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 RAFFA

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