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    The surname Griffie

    A surname, carried by 1,086 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex G610

    Griffie: #23,414 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Griffie #23,414, 1,086 people Griffie: #23,414 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Griffie #23,414, 1,086 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Griffie is more common than 85.6% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,086 people named Griffie in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 284,296 Americans. That is up 4.9% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,035.

    #23,414
    rank among US surnames
    1,086
    people in 2010
    0.4
    per 100,000 Americans
    +4.9%
    change since 2000 (was #23,056)

    Who is named Griffie

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

    71% of people named Griffie identified as white (not Hispanic), 24% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.8% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 71%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 24%
    • Two or more races 2.8%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.1%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Griffie

    Griffie has the Soundex code G610, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code G610.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Griffie?
    1,086 people in the United States had the surname Griffie in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 284,296 Americans. It ranked 23,414th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Griffie?
    In the 2010 Census, 71% of people named Griffie identified as white (not Hispanic), and 24% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Griffie getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,035 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,086 in 2010, up 4.9%.