The surname Saffell
A surname, carried by 1,378 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex S140
Origin
A surname.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 1,378 people named Saffell in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 224,053 Americans. That is up 2.4% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,346.
#19,581
rank among US surnames
1,378
people in 2010
0.5
per 100,000 Americans
+2.4%
change since 2000 (was #18,811)
Who is named Saffell
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
88% of people named Saffell identified as white (not Hispanic), 6.4% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- White (not Hispanic) 88%
- Black (not Hispanic) 6.4%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.5%
- Two or more races 2.0%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.9%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Saffell has the Soundex code S140, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S140.
Questions
- How common is the surname Saffell?
- 1,378 people in the United States had the surname Saffell in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 224,053 Americans. It ranked 19,581st of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Saffell?
- In the 2010 Census, 88% of people named Saffell identified as white (not Hispanic), and 6.4% as Black (not Hispanic).
- Is the surname Saffell getting more or less common?
- More common. 1,346 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,378 in 2010, up 2.4%.