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    The surname Huffer

    A surname, carried by 2,578 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex H160

    Huffer: #12,089 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Huffer #12,089, 2,578 people Huffer: #12,089 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Huffer #12,089, 2,578 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Huffer is more common than 92.5% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 2,578 people named Huffer in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 119,762 Americans. That is down 1.0% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,603.

    #12,089
    rank among US surnames
    2,578
    people in 2010
    0.9
    per 100,000 Americans
    -1%
    change since 2000 (was #11,174)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #12,082Fujimoto2,580119,669
    #12,083Marple2,579119,715
    #12,089Huffer2,578119,762
    #12,095Sommerville2,577119,808

    Who is named Huffer

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

    96% of people named Huffer identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.3% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 96%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.6%
    • Two or more races 1.3%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Native American are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Surnames that sound like Huffer

    Huffer has the Soundex code H160, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code H160.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Huffer?
    2,578 people in the United States had the surname Huffer in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 119,762 Americans. It ranked 12,089th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Huffer?
    In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Huffer identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    Is the surname Huffer getting more or less common?
    Less common. 2,603 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,578 in 2010, down 1.0%.