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    The surname Scarff

    A Norse nickname surname, carried by 561 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex S610

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    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Scarff is more common than 75.8% of them.

    Origin

    Norse origin

    From northern Middle English scarfe (“cormorant”), itself from Old Norse skarfr (compare Icelandic skarfur (“cormorant”)), either a nickname for someone who resembled a cormorant or a byname from Old Norse Skarfi.

    Scarff is a nickname surname: from a description or nickname of an ancestor.

    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 561 people named Scarff in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 550,349 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 563.

    #39,212
    rank among US surnames
    561
    people in 2010
    0.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    -0.4%
    change since 2000 (was #37,266)

    Who is named Scarff

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

    97% of people named Scarff identified as white (not Hispanic).

    • White (not Hispanic) 97%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 0.9%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American, Multiracial are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Scarff

    Scarff has the Soundex code S610, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S610.

    Other Norse surnames

    All 126 Norse surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Scarff come from?
    From northern Middle English scarfe (“cormorant”), itself from Old Norse skarfr (compare Icelandic skarfur (“cormorant”)), either a nickname for someone who resembled a cormorant or a byname from Old Norse Skarfi.
    How common is the surname Scarff?
    561 people in the United States had the surname Scarff in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 550,349 Americans. It ranked 39,212th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Scarff?
    In the 2010 Census, 97% of people named Scarff identified as white (not Hispanic), and 0.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    What type of surname is Scarff?
    Scarff is a nickname surname, from a description or nickname of an ancestor.
    Is the surname Scarff getting more or less common?
    Less common. 563 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 561 in 2010, down 0.4%.