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The STAFF surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,642 16184 0.001 6
United States (1880 census) 322 13554 0.001 6
Change since 1880 +1320 -2630 0 0
Other Countries
Australia 273 5676 0.002 17
United Kingdom 1,191 4555 0.003 26
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.

Classification and Origin of STAFF

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

Ethnic distribution of STAFF in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 72 4.38
White (Hispanic) 38 2.31
Mixed Race 13 0.79
White (Caucasian) 1,511 92.02
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

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

Meaning of STAFF in historical publications

STAFF. The Roman family of the Scipiones derived their name from the filial piety of a person who nsed to lead about his aged father, who was blind, and thus by metaphor became his staff (scij)io.) AVhether the English family can boast of a like honourable origin I know not.

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 STAFF

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as STAFF.

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 STAFF

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