Kauffman

At the 2020 census, 22,869 Americans bore the surname Kauffman — 1,523rd out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 13,100.

By the numbers

People: 22,869
Rank: 1,523rd
How common: 1 in 13,100
Per 100,000: 7.7

Where the name comes from

Origin German

Anglicised from German Kauffmann, an occupational surname referring to a merchant.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 93.8%
Hispanic or Latino 2.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.2%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
Black, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Kauffman

Marta Kauffman (born 1956)American TV producer
Stuart Kauffman (born 1939)American biophysicist
Bob Kauffman (1946–2015)American basketball player and coach
Léon Kauffman (1869–1952)Prime Minister of Luxembourg

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

Surnames like Kauffman

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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.