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    The surname Shoff

    A surname, carried by 1,282 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex S100

    Shoff: #20,648 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Shoff #20,648, 1,282 people Shoff: #20,648 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Shoff #20,648, 1,282 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Shoff 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 1,282 people named Shoff in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 240,831 Americans. That is down 13% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,471.

    #20,648
    rank among US surnames
    1,282
    people in 2010
    0.4
    per 100,000 Americans
    -12.8%
    change since 2000 (was #17,607)

    Who is named Shoff

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

    94% of people named Shoff identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.7% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 94%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.9%
    • Two or more races 1.7%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 1.3%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.6%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 0.4%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Shoff

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

    Questions

    How common is the surname Shoff?
    1,282 people in the United States had the surname Shoff in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 240,831 Americans. It ranked 20,648th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Shoff?
    In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Shoff identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    Is the surname Shoff getting more or less common?
    Less common. 1,471 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,282 in 2010, down 13%.