How common is the surname Groff?

9,889 people in the United States had the surname Groff in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 31,221 Americans. It ranked 3,599th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Groff?

In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Groff identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Groff getting more or less common?

More common. 9,779 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 9,889 in 2010, up 1.1%.

The surname Groff

A surname, carried by 9,889 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex G610

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Groff is more common than 97.8% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 9,889 people named Groff in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 31,221 Americans. That is up 1.1% since 2000, when the Census counted 9,779.

#3,599

rank among US surnames

9,889

people in 2010

3.4

per 100,000 Americans

+1.1%

change since 2000 (was #3,346)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#3,590	Osman	9,908	31,161
#3,592	Wirth	9,907	31,164
#3,593	Gilley	9,906	31,168
#3,594	Isbell	9,905	31,171
#3,595	Chamberlin	9,897	31,196
#3,596	Storm	9,895	31,202
#3,598	Quach	9,894	31,205

Who is named Groff

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

96% of people named Groff identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.2% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 96%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.7%
Two or more races 1.2%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.5%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.2%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Groff

Groff 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 Groff?: 9,889 people in the United States had the surname Groff in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 31,221 Americans. It ranked 3,599th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Groff?: In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Groff identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Groff getting more or less common?: More common. 9,779 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 9,889 in 2010, up 1.1%.