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    The surname Shuff

    A surname, carried by 1,850 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex S100

    Shuff: #15,758 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Shuff #15,758, 1,850 people Shuff: #15,758 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Shuff #15,758, 1,850 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Shuff is more common than 90.3% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,850 people named Shuff in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 166,889 Americans. That is down 1.3% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,874.

    #15,758
    rank among US surnames
    1,850
    people in 2010
    0.6
    per 100,000 Americans
    -1.3%
    change since 2000 (was #14,570)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #15,758Shuff1,850166,889
    #15,763Delmonte1,849166,980

    Who is named Shuff

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

    88% of people named Shuff identified as white (not Hispanic), 8.5% as Black (not Hispanic) and 1.8% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 88%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 8.5%
    • Two or more races 1.8%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.4%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Surnames that sound like Shuff

    Shuff 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 Shuff?
    1,850 people in the United States had the surname Shuff in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 166,889 Americans. It ranked 15,758th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Shuff?
    In the 2010 Census, 88% of people named Shuff identified as white (not Hispanic), and 8.5% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Shuff getting more or less common?
    Less common. 1,874 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,850 in 2010, down 1.3%.