Griffiths

At the 2020 census, 14,800 Americans bore the surname Griffiths — 2,401st out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 20,200.

By the numbers

People: 14,800
Rank: 2,401st
How common: 1 in 20,200
Per 100,000: 5.0

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 Griffiths described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 81.7%
Black, not Hispanic 10.9%
Hispanic or Latino 3.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.0%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Griffiths

Richard Griffiths (1947–2013)British actor
Rachel Griffiths (born 1968)Australian actress
Joel Griffiths (born 1979)Australian association football player
Terry Griffiths (1947–2024)Welsh snooker player
Leigh Griffiths (born 1990)Scottish association football player
Phillip Griffiths (born 1938)American mathematician
Cecil Griffiths (1900–1945)British athlete
Lucy Griffiths (born 1986)English actress

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

Surnames like Griffiths

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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.