How common is the surname Scaife?

1,900 people in the United States had the surname Scaife in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 162,498 Americans. It ranked 15,418th of 162,253 surnames.

Who is the most famous person named Scaife?

Richard Mellon Scaife, American Mellon family heir, and newspaper owner (1932–2014).

Where is the surname Scaife most common?

Wikidata records people named Scaife in the United States.

How do you pronounce Scaife?

Scaife is /ˈskaɪf/, one syllable.

Is the surname Scaife getting more or less common?

More common. 1,691 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,900 in 2010, up 12%.

The surname Scaife

A Norse surname, carried by 1,900 people in the United States.

Pronounced /ˈskaɪf/ 1 syllable Soundex S100

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Scaife is more common than 90.5% of them.

Origin

Norse origin

From Old Norse skeifr (“awry, difficult”).

One of 126 Norse surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,900 people named Scaife in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 162,498 Americans. That is up 12% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,691.

#15,418

rank among US surnames

1,900

people in 2010

0.6

per 100,000 Americans

+12.4%

change since 2000 (was #15,809)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#15,409	McQueary	1,901	162,412
#15,418	McSherry	1,900	162,498

Who is named Scaife

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

46% of people named Scaife identified as Black (not Hispanic), 45% as white (not Hispanic) and 4.3% as two or more races.

Black (not Hispanic) 46%
White (not Hispanic) 45%
Two or more races 4.3%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.0%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.5%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%

Compare: most common surnames among Black Americans.

Famous Scaifes

1 notable person on Wikidata, most written-about first

Richard Mellon Scaife
American Mellon family heir, and newspaper owner (1932–2014)

Spellings and sound-alikes

Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

Variant spellings

Skaife

Surnames that sound like Scaife

Scaife has the Soundex code S100, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S100.

Other Norse surnames

All 126 Norse surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Scaife come from?: From Old Norse skeifr (“awry, difficult”).
How common is the surname Scaife?: 1,900 people in the United States had the surname Scaife in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 162,498 Americans. It ranked 15,418th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Scaife?: In the 2010 Census, 46% of people named Scaife identified as Black (not Hispanic), and 45% as white (not Hispanic).
Who is the most famous person named Scaife?: Richard Mellon Scaife, American Mellon family heir, and newspaper owner (1932–2014).
Where is the surname Scaife most common?: Wikidata records people named Scaife in the United States.
How do you pronounce Scaife?: Scaife is /ˈskaɪf/, one syllable.
Is the surname Scaife getting more or less common?: More common. 1,691 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,900 in 2010, up 12%.
What are other spellings of Scaife?: Skaife.