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The surname Vandergriff

A surname, carried by 2,733 people in the United States.

3 syllables Soundex V536

Vandergriff: #11,508 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Vandergriff #11,508, 2,733 people Vandergriff: #11,508 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Vandergriff #11,508, 2,733 people
Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Vandergriff is more common than 92.9% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 2,733 people named Vandergriff in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 112,969 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 2,729.

#11,508
rank among US surnames
2,733
people in 2010
0.9
per 100,000 Americans
+0.1%
change since 2000 (was #10,736)
RankSurnamePeople1 in
#11,500Sidwell2,736112,846
#11,502Master2,735112,887
#11,504Steeves2,734112,928
#11,508Prout2,733112,969
#11,512Situ2,732113,011
#11,516Sublett2,731113,052

Who is named Vandergriff

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

91% of people named Vandergriff identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.5% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

  • White (not Hispanic) 91%
  • Black (not Hispanic) 3.5%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.8%
  • Two or more races 1.9%
  • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.9%
  • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.2%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Vandergriff

Vandergriff has the Soundex code V536, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code V536.

Questions

How common is the surname Vandergriff?
2,733 people in the United States had the surname Vandergriff in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 112,969 Americans. It ranked 11,508th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Vandergriff?
In the 2010 Census, 91% of people named Vandergriff identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.5% as Black (not Hispanic).
Is the surname Vandergriff getting more or less common?
More common. 2,729 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,733 in 2010, up 0.1%.