How common is the surname Kaufman?

34,844 people in the United States had the surname Kaufman in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 8,861 Americans. It ranked 1,007th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Kaufman?

In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Kaufman identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Who is the most famous person named Kaufman?

Moisés Kaufman, American playwright, director and founder of Tectonic Theater Project.

Where is the surname Kaufman most common?

Wikidata records people named Kaufman in Venezuela.

Is the surname Kaufman getting more or less common?

More common. 34,786 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 34,844 in 2010, up 0.2%.

The surname Kaufman

A German occupational surname, carried by 34,844 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex K155

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Kaufman is more common than 99.4% of them.

Origin

German origin

Anglicised from German Kauffmann, an occupational surname referring to a merchant (German Kaufmann). Doublet of Chapman and Koopman.

Kaufman is an occupational surname: named after the work an ancestor did.

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 34,844 people named Kaufman in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 8,861 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 34,786.

#1,007

rank among US surnames

34,844

people in 2010

per 100,000 Americans

+0.2%

change since 2000 (was #911)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#998	Travis	34,985	8,825
#999	Tang	34,961	8,831
#1,000	Archer	34,949	8,834
#1,001	Haas	34,918	8,842
#1,002	Galloway	34,909	8,844
#1,003	Bray	34,906	8,845
#1,004	Nieves	34,896	8,848

Who is named Kaufman

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

95% of people named Kaufman identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.5% as Black (not Hispanic).

White (not Hispanic) 95%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.0%
Black (not Hispanic) 1.5%
Two or more races 1.1%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.2%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Famous Kaufmans

1 notable person on Wikidata, most written-about first

Moisés Kaufman
American playwright, director and founder of Tectonic Theater Project, born 1963

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Variant spellings

Kofman

Surnames that sound like Kaufman

Kaufman has the Soundex code K155, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code K155.

Other German surnames

All 1,101 German surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Kaufman come from?: Anglicised from German Kauffmann, an occupational surname referring to a merchant (German Kaufmann). Doublet of Chapman and Koopman.
How common is the surname Kaufman?: 34,844 people in the United States had the surname Kaufman in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 8,861 Americans. It ranked 1,007th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Kaufman?: In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Kaufman identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Who is the most famous person named Kaufman?: Moisés Kaufman, American playwright, director and founder of Tectonic Theater Project.
Where is the surname Kaufman most common?: Wikidata records people named Kaufman in Venezuela.
What type of surname is Kaufman?: Kaufman is an occupational surname, named after the work an ancestor did.
Is the surname Kaufman getting more or less common?: More common. 34,786 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 34,844 in 2010, up 0.2%.
What are other spellings of Kaufman?: Kofman.