as a Last Name
- 1,468
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Staff
Meaning & Origins
English (mainly Norfolk): from Middle English staf ‘rod’, ‘staff’; a nickname for a tall, thin person, or a metonymic occupational name for anyone who carried a staff of office, a reminder of his right to inflict physical discipline.
| 16,953rd in the U.S. for 2011 |
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- Hundreds
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 1,468
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Wisconsin
- has the most people named Staff per capita
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