The RUFF surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	15,035	2220	0.006	56
United States (1880 census)	3,491	1750	0.007	70
Change since 1880	+11544	-470	-0.001	-14
Other Countries
Australia	314	4985	0.002	19
United Kingdom	1,469	3830	0.003	32

Top States for RUFF by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
South Carolina	1,001	665	0.025	250
California	968	3223	0.003	29
Ohio	964	1425	0.008	85
North Carolina	851	1463	0.011	106
Georgia	751	1423	0.009	92
Top States for RUFF by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
South Carolina	1,001	665	0.025	250
Montana	178	548	0.020	197
North Dakota	108	747	0.017	168
Delaware	106	1334	0.014	135
North Carolina	851	1463	0.011	106

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

Classification and Origin of RUFF

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Nickname

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Mixed Race	213	1.42
White (Hispanic)	198	1.32
Native American/Alaskan	62	0.41
Asian/Pacific	56	0.37
White (Caucasian)	11,354	75.52
Black/African American	3,151	20.96

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

Similar names to RUFF

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as RUFF.

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.