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    The surname Helfand

    A Yiddish surname, carried by 564 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex H415

    Helfand: #39,052 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Helfand #39,052, 564 people Helfand: #39,052 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#100Jimenez Helfand #39,052, 564 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Helfand is more common than 75.9% of them.

    Origin

    Yiddish origin

    Borrowed from Yiddish העלפֿאַנד (helfand, “elephant”), a Jewish Ashkenazi surname.

    One of 31 Yiddish surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 564 people named Helfand in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 547,421 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 567.

    #39,052
    rank among US surnames
    564
    people in 2010
    0.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    -0.5%
    change since 2000 (was #37,043)

    Who is named Helfand

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

    96% of people named Helfand identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 96%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.5%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Asian & Pacific Islander, Multiracial are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Variant spellings

    Helfand has the Soundex code H415, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code H415.

    Other Yiddish surnames

    All 31 Yiddish surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Helfand come from?
    Borrowed from Yiddish העלפֿאַנד (helfand, “elephant”), a Jewish Ashkenazi surname.
    How common is the surname Helfand?
    564 people in the United States had the surname Helfand in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 547,421 Americans. It ranked 39,052nd of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Helfand?
    In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Helfand identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    Is the surname Helfand getting more or less common?
    Less common. 567 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 564 in 2010, down 0.5%.
    What are other spellings of Helfand?
    Gelfand, Gelfond and Helfant.