Skip to content

The surname Brafford

A surname, carried by 1,366 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex B616

Brafford: #19,716 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Brafford #19,716, 1,366 people Brafford: #19,716 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Brafford #19,716, 1,366 people
Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Brafford is more common than 87.8% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,366 people named Brafford in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 226,022 Americans. That is up 3.5% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,320.

#19,716
rank among US surnames
1,366
people in 2010
0.5
per 100,000 Americans
+3.5%
change since 2000 (was #19,071)

Who is named Brafford

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

90% of people named Brafford identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.0% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

  • White (not Hispanic) 90%
  • Black (not Hispanic) 3.0%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.5%
  • American Indian and Alaska Native 1.8%
  • Two or more races 1.6%
  • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

Surnames that sound like Brafford

Brafford has the Soundex code B616, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B616.

Questions

How common is the surname Brafford?
1,366 people in the United States had the surname Brafford in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 226,022 Americans. It ranked 19,716th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Brafford?
In the 2010 Census, 90% of people named Brafford identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.0% as Black (not Hispanic).
Is the surname Brafford getting more or less common?
More common. 1,320 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,366 in 2010, up 3.5%.