Jaffe

5,474 people in the United States were counted with the surname Jaffe in the 2020 census, making it the 6,033rd most common in the country. That is about one person in 54,600.

By the numbers

People: 5,474
Rank: 6,033rd
How common: 1 in 54,600
Per 100,000: 1.8

Where the name comes from

Origin Hebrew

Borrowed from Hebrew יפה (“beautiful, comely”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 91.8%
Hispanic or Latino 4.1%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.5%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.0%
Black, not Hispanic 0.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.04%

Notable people called Jaffe

Sam Jaffe (1893–1984)American actor, teacher, musician and engineer
Marielle Jaffe (born 1989)American actress, singer and model
Philipp Jaffé (1819–1870)German historian
Arthur Jaffe (born 1937)mathematical physicist
Taliesin Jaffe (born 1977)American actor
Charles Jaffe (1879–1941)American chess player
David Jaffe (born 1971)American video game designer

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

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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.