How common is the surname Stauffer?

15,821 people in the United States had the surname Stauffer in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 19,515 Americans. It ranked 2,307th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Stauffer?

In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Stauffer identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Stauffer getting more or less common?

More common. 15,045 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 15,821 in 2010, up 5.2%.

The surname Stauffer

A surname, carried by 15,821 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex S316

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Stauffer is more common than 98.6% of them.

Origin

South German surname, from the obsolete Middle High German noun stouf (“stoup”) (related to Proto-West Germanic *staupijan (“to pour out”)).

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 15,821 people named Stauffer in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 19,515 Americans. That is up 5.2% since 2000, when the Census counted 15,045.

#2,307

rank among US surnames

15,821

people in 2010

5.4

per 100,000 Americans

+5.2%

change since 2000 (was #2,217)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#2,298	Prather	15,860	19,467
#2,299	Seals	15,858	19,469
#2,300	Wetzel	15,849	19,480
#2,301	Mock	15,847	19,483
#2,302	Parham	15,846	19,484
#2,304	Hutson	15,835	19,498
#2,305	Aponte	15,828	19,506

Who is named Stauffer

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

96% of people named Stauffer identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.2% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 96%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.8%
Two or more races 1.2%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.3%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.2%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Stauffer

Stauffer has the Soundex code S316, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S316.

Questions

Where does the surname Stauffer come from?: South German surname, from the obsolete Middle High German noun stouf (“stoup”) (related to Proto-West Germanic *staupijan (“to pour out”)).
How common is the surname Stauffer?: 15,821 people in the United States had the surname Stauffer in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 19,515 Americans. It ranked 2,307th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Stauffer?: In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Stauffer identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Stauffer getting more or less common?: More common. 15,045 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 15,821 in 2010, up 5.2%.