The surname Jolliffe
A Norman surname, carried by 997 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex J410
Origin
Norman origin
From Middle English, from Anglo-Norman, from jolif, from Old French joli, from Old Norse jol (“Yule”).
One of 128 Norman surnames on this site.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 997 people named Jolliffe in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 309,675 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 995.
Who is named Jolliffe
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
92% of people named Jolliffe identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 2.3% as Black (not Hispanic).
- White (not Hispanic) 92%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.1%
- Black (not Hispanic) 2.3%
- Two or more races 1.7%
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Variant spellings
- Jolliff
- Joliffe
- Joliff
- Jolife
- Jollife
- Jollif
- Jolif
- Jolyff
- Jolyf
- Jollie
Surnames that sound like Jolliffe
Jolliffe has the Soundex code J410, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code J410.
Other Norman surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname Jolliffe come from?
- From Middle English, from Anglo-Norman, from jolif, from Old French joli, from Old Norse jol (“Yule”).
- How common is the surname Jolliffe?
- 997 people in the United States had the surname Jolliffe in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 309,675 Americans. It ranked 24,934th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Jolliffe?
- In the 2010 Census, 92% of people named Jolliffe identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- Is the surname Jolliffe getting more or less common?
- More common. 995 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 997 in 2010, up 0.2%.
- What are other spellings of Jolliffe?
- Jolliff, Joliffe, Joliff, Jolife, Jollife and Jollif.