How common is the surname Ostroff?

889 people in the United States had the surname Ostroff in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 347,295 Americans. It ranked 27,204th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Ostroff?

In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Ostroff identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Ostroff getting more or less common?

Less common. 894 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 889 in 2010, down 0.6%.

The surname Ostroff

A surname, carried by 889 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex O236

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Ostroff is more common than 83.2% of them.

Origin

* As a Jewish surname, Westernized from Ostrov. * As a Jewish and Slavic surname of Russian, Ukrainian, and Belarusian origin, shortened from Ostrovsky.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 889 people named Ostroff in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 347,295 Americans. That is down 0.6% since 2000, when the Census counted 894.

#27,204

rank among US surnames

889

people in 2010

0.3

per 100,000 Americans

-0.6%

change since 2000 (was #25,845)

Who is named Ostroff

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

96% of people named Ostroff identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.2% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 96%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.5%
Two or more races 1.2%
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

Variant spellings

Ostrov
Ostrova

Surnames that sound like Ostroff

Ostroff has the Soundex code O236, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code O236.

Questions

Where does the surname Ostroff come from?: * As a Jewish surname, Westernized from Ostrov. * As a Jewish and Slavic surname of Russian, Ukrainian, and Belarusian origin, shortened from Ostrovsky.
How common is the surname Ostroff?: 889 people in the United States had the surname Ostroff in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 347,295 Americans. It ranked 27,204th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Ostroff?: In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Ostroff identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Ostroff getting more or less common?: Less common. 894 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 889 in 2010, down 0.6%.
What are other spellings of Ostroff?: Ostrov and Ostrova.