Raff Name Origin, Meaning and Family History

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Surname Distribution

Census frequency by county

Name Concentrations Within England and Wales

England

Bedfordshire 0
Buckinghamshire 0
Berkshire 0
Cambridgeshire 0
Channel Islands 0
Cheshire 0
Cornwall 0
Cumberland 0
Derbyshire 0
Devon 0
Dorset 0
Durham 0
Essex 0
Gloucestershire 5
Hampshire 0
Herefordshire 0
Hertfordshire 0
Huntingdonshire 0
Isle of Man 0
Kent 0
Lancashire 0
Leicestershire 1
Lincolnshire 0
London 5
Middlesex 0
Northumberland 0
Norfolk 0
Northamptonshire 1
Nottinghamshire 0
Oxfordshire 0
Rutland 0
Shropshire 0
Suffolk 0
Somerset 0
Surrey 0
Sussex 1
Staffordshire 0
Warwickshire 0
Westmorland 0
Wiltshire 0
Worcestershire 0
Yorkshire 0

Wales

Anglesey 0
Brecknockshire 0
Cardiganshire 0
Carnarvonshire 0
Carmarthenshire 0
Denbighshire 0
Flintshire 0
Glamorgan 0
Merionethshire 0
Montgomeryshire 0
Monmouthshire 0
Pembrokeshire 0
Radnorshire 0

Raff Surname Statistics


Top Professions for the Raff family

Profession Census Frequency
Servant 3
Grocer 2
Scholar 2
Pauper 1
Frame Work Knitter 1
Laundress 1
Almswoman 1
Cook 1

Most Frequent Forenames for Raff

Name Census Frequency
James Raff 11
Elizabeth Raff 10
Mary Raff 10
George Raff 9
William Raff 9
Henry Raff 8
Annie Raff 6
John Raff 6
Sarah Raff 6
Arthur Raff 4
Edward Raff 4
Jane Raff 4
Ann Raff 3
Caroline Raff 3
Charles Raff 3
Eliza Raff 3
Emma Raff 3
Florence Raff 3
Thomas Raff 3
Albert Raff 2
Dora Raff 2
Dorothy Raff 2
Ellen Raff 2
Elsie Raff 2
Esther Raff 2

Raff Surname Variants Ranking

Rank Surname Match Census Frequency
1 Ruff 75% 8,095
2 Roff 75% 4,001
3 Roffe 60% 3,213
4 Raffe 80% 980
5 Ruffee 50% 205
6 Raff 100% 192
7 Ruffe 60% 191
8 Roffee 50% 185
9 Riff 75% 162
10 Raffo 80% 130
11 Rooff 60% 117

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The surname Raff is the 6th most popular variant of Ruff.

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