# Reff (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/reff/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname from German.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | German |
| Type | occupational, named after the work an ancestor did |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 657 |
| US rank (2010) | 34,465 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 469,932 people |
| Change since 2000 | -2.2% (672 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

Borrowed from German Reff (“wooden frame”), a metonymic occupational surname for a carrier or peddler.

## Who carries it

Share of people named Reff in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 86% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 7.8% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 2.0% |
| Two or more races | 2.9% |

## Similar surnames

Ruff, Reiff, Reif, Raff, Roff, Reef, Rubio, Rapp, Robb, Rupp, Roby, Ruby.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.