The surname Danford
A surname, carried by 2,692 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex D516
Origin
A surname.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 2,692 people named Danford in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 114,690 Americans. That is down 1.1% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,721.
#11,644
rank among US surnames
2,692
people in 2010
0.9
per 100,000 Americans
-1.1%
change since 2000 (was #10,762)
Who is named Danford
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
86% of people named Danford identified as white (not Hispanic), 7.8% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.3% as American Indian and Alaska Native.
- White (not Hispanic) 86%
- Black (not Hispanic) 7.8%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 2.3%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.9%
- Two or more races 1.0%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Danford has the Soundex code D516, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code D516.
Questions
- How common is the surname Danford?
- 2,692 people in the United States had the surname Danford in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 114,690 Americans. It ranked 11,644th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Danford?
- In the 2010 Census, 86% of people named Danford identified as white (not Hispanic), and 7.8% as Black (not Hispanic).
- Is the surname Danford getting more or less common?
- Less common. 2,721 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,692 in 2010, down 1.1%.