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    The surname Cuffee

    An Akan surname, carried by 1,823 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex C100

    Cuffee: #15,938 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Cuffee #15,938, 1,823 people Cuffee: #15,938 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Cuffee #15,938, 1,823 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Cuffee is more common than 90.2% of them.

    Origin

    Akan origin

    Anglicized form of Akan Kofi, a personal name denoting a boy born on Friday.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,823 people named Cuffee in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 169,361 Americans. That is up 15% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,584.

    #15,938
    rank among US surnames
    1,823
    people in 2010
    0.6
    per 100,000 Americans
    +15.1%
    change since 2000 (was #16,652)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #15,931Murch1,824169,268
    #15,938Allyn1,823169,361
    #15,947Butner1,822169,454

    Who is named Cuffee

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

    87% of people named Cuffee identified as Black (not Hispanic), 6.1% as white (not Hispanic) and 3.3% as two or more races.

    • Black (not Hispanic) 87%
    • White (not Hispanic) 6.1%
    • Two or more races 3.3%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.0%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 1.0%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.9%

    Compare: most common surnames among Black Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Variant spellings

    Surnames that sound like Cuffee

    Cuffee 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 Cuffee come from?
    Anglicized form of Akan Kofi, a personal name denoting a boy born on Friday.
    How common is the surname Cuffee?
    1,823 people in the United States had the surname Cuffee in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 169,361 Americans. It ranked 15,938th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Cuffee?
    In the 2010 Census, 87% of people named Cuffee identified as Black (not Hispanic), and 6.1% as white (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Cuffee getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,584 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,823 in 2010, up 15%.
    What are other spellings of Cuffee?
    Coffey, Cuffey and Cuffy.