How common is the surname Gifford?

19,514 people in the United States had the surname Gifford in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 15,822 Americans. It ranked 1,834th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Gifford?

In the 2010 Census, 92% of people named Gifford identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Who is the most famous person named Gifford?

Sanford Robinson Gifford, American painter (1823–1880), followed by Frances Gifford.

Where is the surname Gifford most common?

Wikidata records people named Gifford in the United States.

Is the surname Gifford getting more or less common?

More common. 19,171 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 19,514 in 2010, up 1.8%.

The surname Gifford

A place surname, carried by 19,514 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex G163

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Gifford is more common than 98.9% of them.

Origin

Two main origins: * Habitational surname for someone from Broughton Gifford, from the Old English personal name *Gydda + -ing (“belonging to”) + ford (“ford”). * From Old French giffard (“chubby-cheeked, bloated”), perhaps a nickname for a big eater.

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

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 19,514 people named Gifford in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 15,822 Americans. That is up 1.8% since 2000, when the Census counted 19,171.

#1,834

rank among US surnames

19,514

people in 2010

6.6

per 100,000 Americans

+1.8%

change since 2000 (was #1,716)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#1,825	Carmichael	19,628	15,730
#1,826	Toth	19,606	15,748
#1,827	Rushing	19,604	15,749
#1,828	Cody	19,600	15,752
#1,829	Gamboa	19,577	15,771
#1,830	Brewster	19,564	15,781
#1,831	Shipley	19,563	15,782

Who is named Gifford

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

92% of people named Gifford identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 2.2% as Black (not Hispanic).

White (not Hispanic) 92%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.3%
Black (not Hispanic) 2.2%
Two or more races 1.8%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.7%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Famous Giffords

10 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

Sanford Robinson Gifford
American painter (1823–1880)
Frances Gifford
American actress (1920-1994)
Frank Gifford
American football player, television sportscaster (1930-2015)
Barry Gifford
American novelist, poet, screenwriter, biographer, editor (born 1946)
Robert Swain Gifford
American artist (1840-1905)
Edward Winslow Gifford
American anthropologist, 1887–1959
Cassidy Gifford
American actress, born 1993
Oscar S. Gifford
American politician (1842-1913)
Alan Gifford
British actor (1911-1989)
Elizabeth Peckham
American teacher, taxonomist, ethologist, arachnologist, and entomologist, 1854–1940

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Surnames that sound like Gifford

Gafford

Gifford has the Soundex code G163, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code G163.

Questions

Where does the surname Gifford come from?: Two main origins: * Habitational surname for someone from Broughton Gifford, from the Old English personal name *Gydda + -ing (“belonging to”) + ford (“ford”). * From Old French giffard (“chubby-cheeked, bloated”), perhaps a nickname for a big eater.
How common is the surname Gifford?: 19,514 people in the United States had the surname Gifford in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 15,822 Americans. It ranked 1,834th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Gifford?: In the 2010 Census, 92% of people named Gifford identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Who is the most famous person named Gifford?: Sanford Robinson Gifford, American painter (1823–1880), followed by Frances Gifford.
Where is the surname Gifford most common?: Wikidata records people named Gifford in the United States.
What type of surname is Gifford?: Gifford is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
Is the surname Gifford getting more or less common?: More common. 19,171 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 19,514 in 2010, up 1.8%.