Greiff Surname
Approximately 1,910 people bear this surname
Greiff Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Germany | 897 | 1:89,750 | 11,296 |
| United States | 514 | 1:705,173 | 55,723 |
| Sweden | 136 | 1:72,403 | 5,440 |
| Norway | 57 | 1:90,216 | 12,446 |
| Poland | 50 | 1:760,175 | 61,940 |
| Argentina | 45 | 1:949,854 | 60,205 |
| Colombia | 35 | 1:1,364,973 | 10,441 |
| Denmark | 34 | 1:166,021 | 14,242 |
| England | 32 | 1:1,741,189 | 71,393 |
| Canada | 25 | 1:1,473,824 | 101,190 |
| South Africa | 16 | 1:3,386,106 | 119,139 |
| Switzerland | 13 | 1:631,763 | 43,230 |
| Brazil | 12 | 1:17,839,528 | 311,080 |
| Venezuela | 10 | 1:3,020,408 | 31,795 |
| Thailand | 8 | 1:8,829,793 | 476,604 |
| Wales | 6 | 1:515,755 | 23,171 |
| Finland | 3 | 1:1,832,234 | 57,803 |
| Israel | 3 | 1:2,852,545 | 113,505 |
| Philippines | 3 | 1:33,746,074 | 302,898 |
| Australia | 2 | 1:13,497,850 | 222,987 |
| Russia | 2 | 1:72,061,528 | 727,117 |
| India | 2 | 1:383,532,691 | 1,645,216 |
| France | 2 | 1:33,211,361 | 423,184 |
| Spain | 1 | 1:46,752,036 | 156,870 |
| Austria | 1 | 1:8,515,435 | 118,036 |
| Mexico | 1 | 1:124,126,205 | 103,776 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| England | 1 | 1:24,375,369 | 195,128 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 34 | 1:1,477,020 | 79,266 |
Greiff (10) may also be a first name.
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Greiff Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Greiff Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Greiff occurs most in Germany. It may also appear as a variant:. Click here for further potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Greiff? popularity and diffusion
Greiff is the 215,176th most prevalent family name on earth It is held by approximately 1 in 3,815,469 people. The last name occurs predominantly in Europe, where 65 percent of Greiff live; 48 percent live in Western Europe and 47 percent live in Germanic Europe. It is also the 3,684,242nd most frequently occurring first name in the world, held by 10 people.
The last name Greiff is most frequent in Germany, where it is borne by 897 people, or 1 in 89,750. In Germany it is mostly concentrated in: North Rhine-Westphalia, where 24 percent reside, Lower Saxony, where 13 percent reside and Bavaria, where 13 percent reside. Aside from Germany this surname exists in 25 countries. It is also common in The United States, where 27 percent reside and Sweden, where 7 percent reside.
Greiff Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The frequency of Greiff has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people who held the Greiff surname rose 1,512 percent between 1880 and 2014 and in England it rose 3,200 percent between 1881 and 2014.
Greiff Last Name Statistics demography
In The United States those bearing the Greiff last name are 2.8% more likely to be registered Democrats than The US average, with 56.03% registered with the party.
The amount Greiff earn in different countries varies greatly. In Norway they earn 7.07% more than the national average, earning 370,539 kr per year; in South Africa they earn 188.6% more than the national average, earning R 685,824 per year; in Colombia they earn 44.52% more than the national average, earning $32,808,900 COP per year; in United States they earn 26.72% more than the national average, earning $54,678 USD per year and in Canada they earn 0.43% less than the national average, earning $49,470 CAD per year.
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Footnotes
- Surnames are taken as the first part of an person's inherited family name, caste, clan name or in some cases patronymic
- Name distribution statistics are generated from a global database of over 4 billion people - more information
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- Rank: Name are ranked by incidence using the ordinal ranking method; the name that occurs the most is assigned a rank of 1; name that occur less frequently receive an incremented rank; if two or more name occur the same number of times they are assigned the same rank and successive rank is incremented by the total preceeding names
- Ethnic group cannot necessarily be determined by geographic occurrence
- Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Greiff
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