Ruffin

15,856 people in the United States were counted with the surname Ruffin in the 2020 census, making it the 2,235th most common in the country. That is about one person in 18,900.

By the numbers

People: 15,856
Rank: 2,235th
How common: 1 in 18,900
Per 100,000: 5.3

Who bears the name

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

Black, not Hispanic 78.7%
White, not Hispanic 12.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 5.1%
Hispanic or Latino 2.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Ruffin

David Ruffin (1941–1991)American singer
Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin (1842–1924)American publisher, journalist, African American civil rights leader, suffragist, and editor
Jimmy Ruffin (1939–2014)American singer
Amber Ruffin (born 1979)American comedian

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

Surnames like Ruffin

Ruff
Ruffner

Also a first name

Ruffin has been given to 560 American babies as a first name since 1886, peaking in 1916. See it as a given name.

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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.