The surname Stiff
A surname, carried by 2,662 people in the United States.
1 syllable Soundex S310
Origin
English surname, from the adjective stiff.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 2,662 people named Stiff in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 115,983 Americans. That is up 11% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,400.
#11,767
rank among US surnames
2,662
people in 2010
0.9
per 100,000 Americans
+10.9%
change since 2000 (was #11,943)
Who is named Stiff
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
72% of people named Stiff identified as white (not Hispanic), 23% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- White (not Hispanic) 72%
- Black (not Hispanic) 23%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.2%
- Two or more races 1.5%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Stiff has the Soundex code S310, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S310.
Questions
- Where does the surname Stiff come from?
- English surname, from the adjective stiff.
- How common is the surname Stiff?
- 2,662 people in the United States had the surname Stiff in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 115,983 Americans. It ranked 11,767th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Stiff?
- In the 2010 Census, 72% of people named Stiff identified as white (not Hispanic), and 23% as Black (not Hispanic).
- Is the surname Stiff getting more or less common?
- More common. 2,400 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,662 in 2010, up 11%.