Kaufman

At the 2020 census, 33,814 Americans bore the surname Kaufman — 1,016th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 8,839.

By the numbers

People: 33,814
Rank: 1,016th
How common: 1 in 8,839
Per 100,000: 11.3

Where the name comes from

Origin German

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

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 91.9%
Hispanic or Latino 3.2%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.4%
Black, not Hispanic 1.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Surnames like Kaufman

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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.