The SCHIFF surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	3,833	7998	0.001	14
United States (1880 census)	286	14806	0.001	6
Change since 1880	+3547	+6808	0	+8
Other Countries
Australia	14	67852	0	1
United Kingdom	0			0

Top States for SCHIFF by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
New York	761	2252	0.004	40
California	510	5140	0.002	15
Florida	386	4801	0.002	24
Illinois	212	5667	0.002	17
New Jersey	207	4320	0.002	25
Top States for SCHIFF by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
North Dakota	39	2494	0.006	61
Washington DC	23	2384	0.004	40
New York	761	2252	0.004	40
Delaware	25	5211	0.003	32
Colorado	118	4326	0.003	27

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

Classification and Origin of SCHIFF

Region of origin: Europe

Country of origin: Hungary

Language of origin: Hungarian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the SCHIFF 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.

Ethnic distribution of SCHIFF in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	60	1.57
Mixed Race	39	1.02
Asian/Pacific	21	0.55
White (Caucasian)	3,704	96.63
Black/African American	Less than 100	Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan	Less than 100	Insignificant

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

Similar names to SCHIFF

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as SCHIFF.

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.