Neff

Neff is the 1,597th most common surname in the United States, shared by 21,891 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 13,700.

By the numbers

People: 21,891
Rank: 1,597th
How common: 1 in 13,700
Per 100,000: 7.3

Where the name comes from

As a German, gsw and Jewish surname, from the noun Neffe (“nephew”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 91.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.2%
Hispanic or Latino 2.8%
Black, not Hispanic 1.2%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Neff

Jolanda Neff (born 1993)Swiss cyclist
Lucas Neff (born 1985)American actor
Vladimír Neff (1909–1983)Czech translator, bookwriter and writer
Ondřej Neff (born 1945)Czech photographer, publicist, translator and writer

People named Neff 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.