Griffin

191,130 people in the United States were counted with the surname Griffin in the 2020 census, making it the 126th most common in the country. That is about one person in 1,564.

By the numbers

People: 191,130
Rank: 126th
How common: 1 in 1,564
Per 100,000: 63.9

Where the name comes from

Origin Welsh, from a patronymic

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 61.3%
Black, not Hispanic 30.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.5%
Hispanic or Latino 3.2%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Griffin

Blake Griffin (born 1989)American basketball player
Walter Burley Griffin (1876–1937)American architect and landscape architect
Nick Griffin (born 1959)British politician
Kathy Griffin (born 1960)American actress and comedian
Eddie Griffin (born 1968)American actor and comedian
Michael D. Griffin (born 1949)American physicist and aerospace engineer
Roman Griffin Davis (born 2007)British actor
Johnny Griffin (1928–2008)American musician

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

Surnames like Griffin

Also a first name

Griffin has been given to 51,809 American babies as a first name since 1881, peaking in 2023. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

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.