Griffon Last Name Facts and Heraldry

Heraldry is personal. Arms recorded for a Griffon family belonged to that family, and other bearers of the name may have no link to them.

Griffon by the numbers

Official name counts are where our Griffon file begins.

Standard surname dictionaries do not settle the origin of Griffon, so we research it family by family rather than guess. Local archives often hold baptisms and marriages that never reached online indexes. The 2010 US Census counted 420 people named Griffon, ranking it number 49,914 among American surnames. That puts it inside the top 50,000 US surnames. Between 1891 and 2000, 4,868 babies born in France were registered as Griffon, with the most births in 1961–1970.

Get the complete Griffon report, with a museum-style coat of arms.