Schiff

At the 2020 census, 3,726 Americans bore the surname Schiff — 8,499th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 80,200.

By the numbers

People: 3,726
Rank: 8,499th
How common: 1 in 80,200
Per 100,000: 1.3

Where the name comes from

Origin German

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 94.1%
Hispanic or Latino 2.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 1.9%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
Black, not Hispanic 0.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.08%

Notable people called Schiff

Richard Schiff (born 1955)American actor
Adam Schiff (born 1960)American politician
András Schiff (born 1953)Hungarian-born British musician
Peter Schiff (born 1963)American entrepreneur, economist and author
Jacob Schiff (1847–1920)American banker, philanthropist
Hugo Schiff (1834–1915)German chemist
Heinrich Schiff (1951–2016)Austrian cellist and conductor
Stacy Schiff (born 1961)American author

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

Surnames like Schiff

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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.