# Blatchford (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/blatchford/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname from Old English.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | English |
| Type | place, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 1,023 |
| US rank (2010) | 24,466 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 301,804 people |
| Change since 2000 | +0.7% (1,016 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

Habitational surname from a minor place in Devon, which is probably named with the Old English personal name Blæcca + ford (“ford”).

## Who carries it

Share of people named Blatchford in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 88% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 1.7% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 7.2% |
| Two or more races | 2.3% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Blatchford in the United States.

## People named Blatchford

- Samuel Blatchford, American jurist (1820–1893); US Supreme Court justice from 1882 to 1893

## Similar surnames

Bledsoe, Baltazar, Blodgett, Bolduc, Blades, Beltz, Boltz, Baltz, Bolds, Baltes, Blitz, Balducci.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.