How common is the surname Cuff?

3,022 people in the United States had the surname Cuff in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 102,166 Americans. It ranked 10,598th of 162,253 surnames.

Is the surname Cuff getting more or less common?

More common. 2,862 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,022 in 2010, up 5.6%.

The surname Cuff

A patronymic surname, carried by 3,022 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex C100

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Cuff is more common than 93.5% of them.

Origin

Various etymologies: * As an English surname, from Middle English cuffe (“glove”); see cuff. * As an Irish surname, from mac duibh (“son of the dark one”), see Duff. * As a Cornish surname, from cuf (“kind, dear”), from Proto-Celtic *koymo- (“nice, dear”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱóymos (“village, home”); see home.

Cuff is a patronymic surname: formed from a father’s (or ancestor’s) given name.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 3,022 people named Cuff in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 102,166 Americans. That is up 5.6% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,862.

#10,598

rank among US surnames

3,022

people in 2010

1.0

per 100,000 Americans

+5.6%

change since 2000 (was #10,315)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#10,589	Stgeorge	3,026	102,031
#10,593	Butters	3,025	102,065
#10,596	Coan	3,024	102,098
#10,598	Chumley	3,022	102,166
#10,601	Boice	3,021	102,200
#10,603	Hugo	3,020	102,234
#10,607	Kollar	3,019	102,267

Who is named Cuff

Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

65% of people named Cuff identified as white (not Hispanic), 25% as Black (not Hispanic) and 4.4% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 65%
Black (not Hispanic) 25%
Two or more races 4.4%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.1%
American Indian and Alaska Native 1.6%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.8%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

Variant spellings

Cuffe

Surnames that sound like Cuff

Cuff has the Soundex code C100, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code C100.

Questions

Where does the surname Cuff come from?: Various etymologies: * As an English surname, from Middle English cuffe (“glove”); see cuff. * As an Irish surname, from mac duibh (“son of the dark one”), see Duff. * As a Cornish surname, from cuf (“kind, dear”), from Proto-Celtic *koymo- (“nice, dear”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱóymos…
How common is the surname Cuff?: 3,022 people in the United States had the surname Cuff in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 102,166 Americans. It ranked 10,598th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Cuff?: In the 2010 Census, 65% of people named Cuff identified as white (not Hispanic), and 25% as Black (not Hispanic).
What type of surname is Cuff?: Cuff is a patronymic surname, formed from a father’s (or ancestor’s) given name.
Is the surname Cuff getting more or less common?: More common. 2,862 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,022 in 2010, up 5.6%.
What are other spellings of Cuff?: Cuffe.