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The REEF surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 536 38771 0 2
United States (1880 census) 263 15770 0.001 5
Change since 1880 +273 -23001 +N/A -3
Other Countries
Australia 5 149203 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for REEF by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Indiana 110 6627 0.002 18
Ohio 98 12920 0.001 9
Colorado 41 12710 0.001 10
California 33 61290 0.000 1
Illinois 27 45536 0.000 2
Top States for REEF by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Indiana 110 6627 0.002 18
Colorado 41 12710 0.001 10
Ohio 98 12920 0.001 9
Wyoming 3 19843 0.001 6
Washington DC 3 17846 0.001 5

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

Classification and Origin of REEF

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the REEF surname.

Ethnic distribution of REEF in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 497 92.72
White (Hispanic) 11 2.05
Black/African American 8 1.49
Mixed Race 8 1.49
Native American/Alaskan 7 1.31
Asian/Pacific 5 0.93

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

REEF is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Meaning of REEF in historical publications

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

Similar names to REEF

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as REEF.

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 REEF

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