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    The surname Blackford

    A surname, carried by 4,476 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex B421

    Blackford: #7,443 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Blackford #7,443, 4,476 people Blackford: #7,443 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Blackford #7,443, 4,476 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Blackford is more common than 95.4% of them.

    Origin

    From black + ford.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 4,476 people named Blackford in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 68,978 Americans. That is up 3.7% since 2000, when the Census counted 4,316.

    #7,443
    rank among US surnames
    4,476
    people in 2010
    1.5
    per 100,000 Americans
    +3.7%
    change since 2000 (was #7,137)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #7,434Firestone4,48068,916
    #7,437Deel4,47868,947
    #7,441Warrington4,47768,963
    #7,443Behm4,47668,978
    #7,445Seymore4,47469,009
    #7,446Topete4,47369,024
    #7,450Balch4,47269,040

    Who is named Blackford

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

    89% of people named Blackford identified as white (not Hispanic), 5.6% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.4% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 89%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 5.6%
    • Two or more races 2.4%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.7%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.7%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Blackford

    Blackford has the Soundex code B421, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B421.

    Questions

    Where does the surname Blackford come from?
    From black + ford.
    How common is the surname Blackford?
    4,476 people in the United States had the surname Blackford in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 68,978 Americans. It ranked 7,443rd of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Blackford?
    In the 2010 Census, 89% of people named Blackford identified as white (not Hispanic), and 5.6% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Blackford getting more or less common?
    More common. 4,316 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,476 in 2010, up 3.7%.