How common is the surname Imhoff?

3,734 people in the United States had the surname Imhoff in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 82,685 Americans. It ranked 8,780th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Imhoff?

In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Imhoff identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Who is the most famous person named Imhoff?

Darrall Imhoff, American basketball player (1938-2017), followed by Juan José Imhoff.

Where is the surname Imhoff most common?

Wikidata records people named Imhoff in the United States and Argentina.

Is the surname Imhoff getting more or less common?

More common. 3,698 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,734 in 2010, up 1.0%.

The surname Imhoff

A German surname, carried by 3,734 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex I510

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Imhoff is more common than 94.6% of them.

Origin

German origin

Borrowed from German Imhoff.

One of 1,101 German surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 3,734 people named Imhoff in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 82,685 Americans. That is up 1.0% since 2000, when the Census counted 3,698.

#8,780

rank among US surnames

3,734

people in 2010

1.3

per 100,000 Americans

+1%

change since 2000 (was #8,242)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#8,772	Partain	3,737	82,619
#8,773	Peer	3,736	82,641
#8,775	Hosey	3,735	82,663
#8,780	Wille	3,734	82,685
#8,784	Lorenzen	3,733	82,707
#8,787	Nyberg	3,732	82,729
#8,789	Florian	3,731	82,751

Who is named Imhoff

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

95% of people named Imhoff identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.1% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 95%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.5%
Two or more races 1.1%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.3%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Famous Imhoffs

2 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

Darrall Imhoff
American basketball player (1938-2017)
Juan José Imhoff
Argentine rugby union footballer, born 1988

Notable Imhoffs come mostly from the United States (1) and Argentina (1).

Spellings and sound-alikes

Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

Variant spellings

Emhoff

Surnames that sound like Imhoff

Imhof

Imhoff has the Soundex code I510, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code I510.

Other German surnames

All 1,101 German surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Imhoff come from?: Borrowed from German Imhoff.
How common is the surname Imhoff?: 3,734 people in the United States had the surname Imhoff in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 82,685 Americans. It ranked 8,780th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Imhoff?: In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Imhoff identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Who is the most famous person named Imhoff?: Darrall Imhoff, American basketball player (1938-2017), followed by Juan José Imhoff.
Where is the surname Imhoff most common?: Wikidata records people named Imhoff in the United States and Argentina.
Is the surname Imhoff getting more or less common?: More common. 3,698 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,734 in 2010, up 1.0%.
What are other spellings of Imhoff?: Emhoff.