# Buford (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/buford/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 10,964 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 10,854 / 110 (1% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1913 | 6 | 2,875 |
| 1915 | 5 | 4,366 |
| 1916 | 5 | 4,511 |
| 1917 | 5 | 4,687 |
| 1918 | 7 | 3,929 |
| 1919 | 6 | 4,323 |
| 1920 | 5 | 5,082 |
| 1922 | 7 | 4,059 |
| 1923 | 7 | 4,027 |
| 1926 | 10 | 3,075 |
| 1927 | 5 | 4,900 |
| 1928 | 6 | 4,255 |
| 1936 | 7 | 3,413 |
| 1940 | 5 | 4,438 |
| 1952 | 5 | 5,643 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1993 | 12 | 4,738 |
| 1994 | 6 | 7,898 |
| 1995 | 9 | 5,986 |
| 1996 | 7 | 7,238 |
| 1997 | 6 | 8,268 |
| 1998 | 6 | 8,611 |
| 1999 | 7 | 7,973 |
| 2000 | 9 | 6,922 |
| 2003 | 7 | 8,790 |
| 2005 | 10 | 7,193 |
| 2006 | 6 | 10,858 |
| 2012 | 5 | 12,563 |
| 2016 | 5 | 12,487 |
| 2023 | 5 | 12,533 |
| 2025 | 6 | 10,884 |

## People named Buford

- Buford Ellington, American politician (1907-1972)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.