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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

'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.

Meaning of SCHIFF in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of SCHIFF.

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.

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

Potential typos for SCHIFF

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