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The surname Bransford

A surname, carried by 1,095 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex B652

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Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Bransford is more common than 85.7% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,095 people named Bransford in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 281,959 Americans. That is up 3.2% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,061.

#23,268
rank among US surnames
1,095
people in 2010
0.4
per 100,000 Americans
+3.2%
change since 2000 (was #22,612)

Who is named Bransford

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

62% of people named Bransford identified as white (not Hispanic), 22% as Black (not Hispanic) and 11% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

  • White (not Hispanic) 62%
  • Black (not Hispanic) 22%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 11%
  • Two or more races 4.0%
  • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.8%
  • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.6%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Bransford

Bransford has the Soundex code B652, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B652.

Questions

How common is the surname Bransford?
1,095 people in the United States had the surname Bransford in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 281,959 Americans. It ranked 23,268th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Bransford?
In the 2010 Census, 62% of people named Bransford identified as white (not Hispanic), and 22% as Black (not Hispanic).
Is the surname Bransford getting more or less common?
More common. 1,061 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,095 in 2010, up 3.2%.