The RUFUS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	1,265	19710	0	5
United States (1880 census)	267	15612	0.001	5
Change since 1880	+998	-4098	+N/A	0
Other Countries
Australia	96	14720	0.001	6
United Kingdom	190	16999	0	4

Top States for RUFUS by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Illinois	195	8068	0.002	16
California	144	19608	0.000	4
Texas	84	20206	0.000	4
South Carolina	82	6071	0.002	20
New York	65	32932	0.000	3
Top States for RUFUS by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
South Carolina	82	6071	0.002	20
Illinois	195	8068	0.002	16
North Dakota	10	12515	0.002	16
Arkansas	35	8545	0.001	13
Maryland	50	13037	0.001	9

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

Classification and Origin of RUFUS

Region of origin: Europe

Name derivation: From given name or forename

Ethnic distribution of RUFUS in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	930	73.52
White (Caucasian)	244	19.29
White (Hispanic)	28	2.21
Mixed Race	27	2.13
Native American/Alaskan	19	1.5
Asian/Pacific	17	1.34

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

Similar names to RUFUS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as RUFUS.

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.