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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

'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.

Meaning of RUFF in historical publications

RUFF. Tlie same as Rough.

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 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.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for RUFF

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