How common is the surname Shiffer?

1,281 people in the United States had the surname Shiffer in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 241,019 Americans. It ranked 20,664th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Shiffer?

In the 2010 Census, 90% of people named Shiffer identified as white (not Hispanic), and 5.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Shiffer getting more or less common?

More common. 1,233 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,281 in 2010, up 3.9%.

The surname Shiffer

A surname, carried by 1,281 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex S160

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Shiffer is more common than 87.3% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,281 people named Shiffer in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 241,019 Americans. That is up 3.9% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,233.

#20,664

rank among US surnames

1,281

people in 2010

0.4

per 100,000 Americans

+3.9%

change since 2000 (was #20,111)

Who is named Shiffer

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

90% of people named Shiffer identified as white (not Hispanic), 5.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.6% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 90%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 5.2%
Two or more races 1.6%
Black (not Hispanic) 1.3%
Asian and Pacific Islander 1.1%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.5%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Shiffer

Shiffer has the Soundex code S160, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S160.

Questions

How common is the surname Shiffer?: 1,281 people in the United States had the surname Shiffer in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 241,019 Americans. It ranked 20,664th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Shiffer?: In the 2010 Census, 90% of people named Shiffer identified as white (not Hispanic), and 5.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Shiffer getting more or less common?: More common. 1,233 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,281 in 2010, up 3.9%.