McGriff

At the 2020 census, 5,568 Americans bore the surname McGriff — 5,956th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 53,700.

By the numbers

People: 5,568
Rank: 5,956th
How common: 1 in 53,700
Per 100,000: 1.9

Where the name comes from

Origin Irish

Perhaps an altered form of McNiff.

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

Who bears the name

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

Black, not Hispanic 58.2%
White, not Hispanic 32.1%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 6.2%
Hispanic or Latino 2.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Surnames like McGriff

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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.