Puff Surname
Approximately 2,918 people bear this surname
Puff Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 1,094 | 1:331,315 | 30,015 |
| Germany | 596 | 1:135,076 | 16,444 |
| Austria | 429 | 1:19,849 | 3,081 |
| Brazil | 381 | 1:561,875 | 21,013 |
| Canada | 112 | 1:328,978 | 30,038 |
| Poland | 66 | 1:575,890 | 53,502 |
| Portugal | 38 | 1:274,164 | 10,086 |
| France | 30 | 1:2,214,091 | 176,965 |
| Israel | 21 | 1:407,506 | 32,346 |
| South Africa | 20 | 1:2,708,885 | 106,094 |
| Italy | 17 | 1:3,597,452 | 102,597 |
| Czechia | 12 | 1:886,122 | 73,425 |
| Australia | 8 | 1:3,374,463 | 124,818 |
| Netherlands | 8 | 1:2,110,897 | 88,902 |
| England | 7 | 1:7,959,723 | 202,100 |
| Switzerland | 7 | 1:1,173,274 | 69,697 |
| Thailand | 5 | 1:14,127,669 | 603,945 |
| Philippines | 5 | 1:20,247,645 | 262,352 |
| China | 5 | 1:273,464,313 | 13,838 |
| Argentina | 4 | 1:10,685,854 | 219,200 |
| Ukraine | 4 | 1:11,380,674 | 331,818 |
| Singapore | 4 | 1:1,376,926 | 28,409 |
| Papua New Guinea | 4 | 1:2,038,429 | 140,827 |
| Finland | 3 | 1:1,832,234 | 57,803 |
| Malaysia | 3 | 1:9,831,408 | 269,765 |
| Indonesia | 3 | 1:44,083,065 | 698,220 |
| Sweden | 2 | 1:4,923,378 | 241,212 |
| Spain | 2 | 1:23,376,018 | 128,922 |
| Mexico | 2 | 1:62,063,102 | 83,384 |
| Norway | 2 | 1:2,571,143 | 95,402 |
| Hong Kong | 2 | 1:3,667,742 | 11,574 |
| Cape Verde | 2 | 1:264,821 | 5,214 |
| Turkey | 1 | 1:77,821,422 | 191,047 |
| Greece | 1 | 1:11,079,790 | 145,225 |
| Tanzania | 1 | 1:52,941,613 | 123,716 |
| Ghana | 1 | 1:27,020,692 | 23,742 |
| Togo | 1 | 1:7,247,768 | 12,049 |
| Belgium | 1 | 1:11,496,644 | 167,539 |
| Egypt | 1 | 1:91,935,754 | 132,737 |
| Bahamas | 1 | 1:391,751 | 2,737 |
| Venezuela | 1 | 1:30,204,077 | 85,459 |
| El Salvador | 1 | 1:6,343,888 | 8,415 |
| South Korea | 1 | 1:51,240,256 | 8,015 |
| Colombia | 1 | 1:47,774,072 | 44,230 |
| Honduras | 1 | 1:8,816,442 | 9,272 |
| Belize | 1 | 1:355,474 | 3,977 |
| India | 1 | 1:767,065,382 | 1,851,717 |
| Pakistan | 1 | 1:178,643,885 | 213,220 |
| Nigeria | 1 | 1:177,142,758 | 748,972 |
| Ecuador | 1 | 1:15,905,846 | 50,210 |
| Japan | 1 | 1:127,844,293 | 73,547 |
| Jamaica | 1 | 1:2,869,947 | 13,896 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| England | 2 | 1:12,187,685 | 173,419 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 442 | 1:113,617 | 11,247 |
The alternate forms: Püff (10) are calculated separately.
Puff (80) may also be a first name.
Puff Demographics
Average Male Puff Height
176.76 cm
Sample is predominantly from Anglosphere countries
Puff Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Puff Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Puff occurs in The United States more than any other country/territory. It can also be rendered as a variant: Püff. For other potential spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Puff? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 151,004th most commonly held family name at a global level. It is borne by around 1 in 2,497,445 people. Puff is primarily found in The Americas, where 55 percent of Puff live; 41 percent live in North America and 41 percent live in Anglo-North America. It is also the 1,075,395th most frequently used first name worldwide, borne by 80 people.
The surname is most numerous in The United States, where it is carried by 1,094 people, or 1 in 331,315. In The United States it is mostly concentrated in: New York, where 16 percent live, Missouri, where 10 percent live and Michigan, where 9 percent live. Excluding The United States this last name is found in 51 countries. It also occurs in Germany, where 20 percent live and Austria, where 15 percent live.
Puff Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The incidence of Puff has changed over time. In The United States the number of people carrying the Puff last name rose 248 percent between 1880 and 2014 and in England it rose 350 percent between 1881 and 2014.
Puff Last Name Statistics demography
In The United States those bearing the Puff surname are 5.65% more likely to be registered with the Republican Party than The US average, with 52.42% being registered to vote for the political party.
The amount Puff earn in different countries varies greatly. In South Africa they earn 45.37% less than the national average, earning R 129,816 per year; in United States they earn 10.58% more than the national average, earning $47,714 USD per year and in Canada they earn 5.35% less than the national average, earning $47,023 CAD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
| Surname | Similarity | Worldwide Incidence | Prevalency |
|---|---|---|---|
| Püff | 92 | 10 | / |
| Puffe | 89 | 243 | / |
| Pfuff | 89 | 132 | / |
| Pauff | 89 | 124 | / |
| Puffs | 89 | 6 | / |
| Pouff | 89 | 2 | / |
| Phuff | 89 | 2 | / |
| Puf | 86 | 551 | / |
| Puiffe | 80 | 95 | / |
| Pouffe | 80 | 1 | / |
| Pauffe | 80 | 0 | / |
| Pufe | 75 | 194 | / |
| Peuf | 75 | 89 | / |
| Pauf | 75 | 12 | / |
| Pguf | 75 | 3 | / |
| Puft | 75 | 2 | / |
| Pufs | 75 | 2 | / |
| Pufh | 75 | 1 | / |
| Puzf | 75 | 1 | / |
| Phuf | 75 | 1 | / |
| Puwf | 75 | 1 | / |
| Pupf | 75 | 0 | / |
| Puffová | 73 | 12 | / |
| Puffova | 73 | 1 | / |
| Pushf | 67 | 21 | / |
| Paufe | 67 | 5 | / |
| Pooff | 67 | 1 | / |
| Hpuyf | 67 | 1 | / |
| Poufe | 67 | 1 | / |
| Puchf | 67 | 1 | / |
| Pheuf | 67 | 0 | / |
| Phouf | 67 | 0 | / |
| Poeff | 67 | 0 | / |
| Phauf | 67 | 0 | / |
| Peufs | 67 | 0 | / |
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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 Puff
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