Shiff
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈʃɪf/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Shiff is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- ILIsrael1 in 5.5Kas שיף(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 83Kas Schiff
- ATAustria≈1 in 63K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Shiff itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 188 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 63K (inferred from the name graph)
3,993 named Schiff, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Austria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled שיף in IL Israel, HU Hungary, LV Latvia.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Shiff counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 3,993as Schiff | 1 in 83K | 4K | Shiff | 188 |
| IL Israel | #859 | 1,585as שיף | 1 in 5.5K | 1.6K | שיף | 33 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 63K | — | Shiff | 3 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 312K | — | Shiff | 56 |
| HU Hungary | — | ≈90 est. | ≈1 in 109K | — | שיף | 3 |
| LV Latvia | — | ≈64 est. | ≈1 in 29K | — | שיף | 3 |
| BZ Belize | — | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 109K | — | Shiff | 1 |
3,993 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010, counting the spelling schiff. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Richard Shiffb. 1943USart historian, scholar
- Melissa Shiffb. 1967photographer
- Jonathan M. Shiffb. 2000AUAustralian television producer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 11 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 321 | #66,499 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 319 | #59,293 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 287 | #68,547 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Shiff?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈʃɪf/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Shiff have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 4.0 thousand people named Schiff, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Shiff?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,993 people named Schiff in 2010, about 1 in 83 thousand residents.
- How common is Shiff compared with other names?
- In Israel, Shiff is the 859th most common surname of 325,634 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Shiff?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/shiffThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Shiff” — the 859th most common surname in Israel. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.