Graf

Graf is the 2,719th most common surname in the United States, shared by 12,921 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 23,100.

By the numbers

People: 12,921
Rank: 2,719th
How common: 1 in 23,100
Per 100,000: 4.3

Where the name comes from

As a German and Jewish surname, from graf (“count”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Graf described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 92.3%
Hispanic or Latino 3.6%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.1%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.0%
Black, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Graf

Steffi Graf (born 1969)German tennis player
David Graf (1950–2001)American actor
Oskar Maria Graf (1894–1967)German writer and activist
Stephanie Graf (born 1973)Austrian middle distance runner
Hermann Graf (1912–1988)German officer and fighter pilot during World War II
Arturo Graf (1848–1913)Italian poet
Willi Graf (1918–1943)German military physician and resistance fighter, "White Rose" member
Olga Graf (born 1983)Russian speed skater

People named Graf with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Graf

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.