Griffith

At the 2020 census, 75,478 Americans bore the surname Griffith — 425th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 3,960.

By the numbers

People: 75,478
Rank: 425th
How common: 1 in 3,960
Per 100,000: 25.3

Where the name comes from

Origin Welsh, from a patronymic

Anglicized from Welsh Gruffudd.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 80.9%
Black, not Hispanic 10.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.1%
Hispanic or Latino 3.5%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Griffith

D. W. Griffith (1875–1948)American filmmaker
Melanie Griffith (born 1957)American actress
Florence Griffith Joyner (1959–1998)American track and field athlete
Andy Griffith (1926–2012)American actor, comedian, television producer, singer, and writer
Hugh Griffith (1912–1980)Welsh actor
Arthur Griffith (1872–1922)Irish politician and writer, founder of Sinn Féin
Corinne Griffith (1894–1979)American actress, film producer, author
Frederick Griffith (1877–1941)British bacteriologist

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

Surnames like Griffith

Also a first name

Griffith has been given to 1,550 American babies as a first name since 1899, peaking in 1918. 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.