The surname Taff
A Welsh surname, carried by 1,987 people in the United States.
1 syllable Soundex T100
Origin
Welsh origin
* The name of the river is derived from Welsh Taf. * As an Irish and Welsh surname, a variant of Taaffe.
One of 60 Welsh surnames on this site.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 1,987 people named Taff in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 155,383 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 1,977.
Who is named Taff
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
93% of people named Taff identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.1% as Black (not Hispanic) and 1.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- White (not Hispanic) 93%
- Black (not Hispanic) 2.1%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.5%
- Two or more races 1.4%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 1.2%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Taff has the Soundex code T100, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code T100.
Other Welsh surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname Taff come from?
- * The name of the river is derived from Welsh Taf. * As an Irish and Welsh surname, a variant of Taaffe.
- How common is the surname Taff?
- 1,987 people in the United States had the surname Taff in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 155,383 Americans. It ranked 14,893rd of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Taff?
- In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Taff identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.1% as Black (not Hispanic).
- Is the surname Taff getting more or less common?
- More common. 1,977 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,987 in 2010, up 0.5%.