Griffey

At the 2020 census, 2,933 Americans bore the surname Griffey — 10,451st out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 102,000.

By the numbers

People: 2,933
Rank: 10,451st
How common: 1 in 102,000
Per 100,000: 0.98

Where the name comes from

Origin Irish

Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó Gríobhtha (“descendant of Gríobhtha”), a personal name which derives from gríobh (“griffin”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 82.8%
Black, not Hispanic 7.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 5.4%
Hispanic or Latino 3.0%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Griffey

Ken Griffey Jr. (born 1969)American baseball player

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

Surnames like Griffey

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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.