The SCHAFF surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	2,816	10465	0.001	10
United States (1880 census)	426	10963	0.001	9
Change since 1880	+2390	+498	0	+1
Other Countries
Australia	2	238770	0	0
United Kingdom	0			0

Top States for SCHAFF by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
North Dakota	229	233	0.036	357
New York	198	9594	0.001	10
California	194	12829	0.001	6
Montana	173	553	0.019	192
Washington	171	4317	0.003	29
Top States for SCHAFF by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
North Dakota	229	233	0.036	357
Montana	173	553	0.019	192
South Dakota	34	3733	0.005	45
Wyoming	19	3505	0.004	38
Louisiana	154	3622	0.003	34

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

Classification and Origin of SCHAFF

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

Ethnic distribution of SCHAFF in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	28	0.99
Mixed Race	20	0.71
Asian/Pacific	14	0.5
Native American/Alaskan	8	0.28
Black/African American	5	0.18
White (Caucasian)	2,741	97.34

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

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

Similar names to SCHAFF

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as SCHAFF.

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.