The surname Bassford
An English place surname, carried by 655 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex B216
Origin
English origin
Habitational surname from any of several places called Basford, from an Old English personal name *Basa + ford.
Bassford is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
One of 1,446 English surnames on this site.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 655 people named Bassford in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 471,367 Americans. That is down 4.1% since 2000, when the Census counted 683.
Who is named Bassford
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
92% of people named Bassford identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 2.0% as two or more races.
- White (not Hispanic) 92%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.2%
- Two or more races 2.0%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 1.4%
Spellings and sound-alikes
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Surnames that sound like Bassford
Bassford has the Soundex code B216, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B216.
Other English surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname Bassford come from?
- Habitational surname from any of several places called Basford, from an Old English personal name *Basa + ford.
- How common is the surname Bassford?
- 655 people in the United States had the surname Bassford in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 471,367 Americans. It ranked 34,539th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Bassford?
- In the 2010 Census, 92% of people named Bassford identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- What type of surname is Bassford?
- Bassford is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
- Is the surname Bassford getting more or less common?
- Less common. 683 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 655 in 2010, down 4.1%.