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    The surname Jolliff

    A surname, carried by 2,144 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex J410

    Jolliff: #14,046 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Jolliff #14,046, 2,144 people Jolliff: #14,046 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Jolliff #14,046, 2,144 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Jolliff is more common than 91.3% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 2,144 people named Jolliff in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 144,004 Americans. That is up 1.1% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,121.

    #14,046
    rank among US surnames
    2,144
    people in 2010
    0.7
    per 100,000 Americans
    +1.1%
    change since 2000 (was #13,201)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #14,038Sang2,146143,870
    #14,042Viator2,145143,937
    #14,046Jolliff2,144144,004
    #14,050Tiner2,143144,072

    Who is named Jolliff

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

    89% of people named Jolliff identified as white (not Hispanic), 7.6% as Black (not Hispanic) and 1.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 89%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 7.6%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.6%
    • Two or more races 1.2%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.5%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.3%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Jolliff

    Jolliff has the Soundex code J410, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code J410.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Jolliff?
    2,144 people in the United States had the surname Jolliff in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 144,004 Americans. It ranked 14,046th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Jolliff?
    In the 2010 Census, 89% of people named Jolliff identified as white (not Hispanic), and 7.6% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Jolliff getting more or less common?
    More common. 2,121 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,144 in 2010, up 1.1%.
    What are other spellings of Jolliff?
    Jolliffe.