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The surname Beauford

A French surname, carried by 1,731 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex B163

Beauford: #16,575 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Beauford #16,575, 1,731 people Beauford: #16,575 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Beauford #16,575, 1,731 people
Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Beauford is more common than 89.8% of them.

Origin

French origin

A surname from French.

One of 791 French surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,731 people named Beauford in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 178,363 Americans. That is up 6.3% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,629.

#16,575
rank among US surnames
1,731
people in 2010
0.6
per 100,000 Americans
+6.3%
change since 2000 (was #16,283)
RankSurnamePeople1 in
#16,570Gokey1,732178,260
#16,575Gaw1,731178,363
#16,582Aune1,730178,466

Who is named Beauford

Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

69% of people named Beauford identified as Black (not Hispanic), 24% as white (not Hispanic) and 3.1% as two or more races.

  • Black (not Hispanic) 69%
  • White (not Hispanic) 24%
  • Two or more races 3.1%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.7%
  • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%
  • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%

Compare: most common surnames among Black Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Beauford

Beauford has the Soundex code B163, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B163.

Other French surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Beauford come from?
Beauford is French in origin.
How common is the surname Beauford?
1,731 people in the United States had the surname Beauford in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 178,363 Americans. It ranked 16,575th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Beauford?
In the 2010 Census, 69% of people named Beauford identified as Black (not Hispanic), and 24% as white (not Hispanic).
Is the surname Beauford getting more or less common?
More common. 1,629 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,731 in 2010, up 6.3%.