The surname Buffa
An Italian surname, carried by 1,489 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex B100
Origin
Italian origin
Borrowed from Italian Buffa, from Sicilian buffa (“toad”).
One of 798 Italian surnames on this site.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 1,489 people named Buffa in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 207,351 Americans. That is up 1.8% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,462.
Who is named Buffa
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
94% of people named Buffa identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- White (not Hispanic) 94%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.6%
- Black (not Hispanic) 0.8%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%
Spellings and sound-alikes
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Surnames that sound like Buffa
Buffa has the Soundex code B100, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B100.
Other Italian surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname Buffa come from?
- Borrowed from Italian Buffa, from Sicilian buffa (“toad”).
- How common is the surname Buffa?
- 1,489 people in the United States had the surname Buffa in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 207,351 Americans. It ranked 18,529th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Buffa?
- In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Buffa identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- Is the surname Buffa getting more or less common?
- More common. 1,462 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,489 in 2010, up 1.8%.