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    The surname Byford

    An English place surname, carried by 1,248 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex B163

    Byford: #21,057 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Byford #21,057, 1,248 people Byford: #21,057 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Byford #21,057, 1,248 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Byford is more common than 87% of them.

    Origin

    English origin

    From Old English byġe (“curve, bend”) + ford (“ford”), "ford at the river bend".

    Byford is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

    One of 1,446 English surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,248 people named Byford in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 247,392 Americans. That is up 5.6% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,182.

    #21,057
    rank among US surnames
    1,248
    people in 2010
    0.4
    per 100,000 Americans
    +5.6%
    change since 2000 (was #20,778)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #21,048Zartman1,249247,194
    #21,057Breyer1,248247,392

    Who is named Byford

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

    90% of people named Byford identified as white (not Hispanic), 4.0% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 90%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 4.0%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.5%
    • Two or more races 1.6%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Byford

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

    Other English surnames

    All 1,446 English surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Byford come from?
    From Old English byġe (“curve, bend”) + ford (“ford”), "ford at the river bend".
    How common is the surname Byford?
    1,248 people in the United States had the surname Byford in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 247,392 Americans. It ranked 21,057th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Byford?
    In the 2010 Census, 90% of people named Byford identified as white (not Hispanic), and 4.0% as Black (not Hispanic).
    What type of surname is Byford?
    Byford is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Byford getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,182 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,248 in 2010, up 5.6%.