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    The surname Gulliford

    A surname, carried by 574 people in the United States.

    3 syllables Soundex G416

    Gulliford: #38,532 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Gulliford #38,532, 574 people Gulliford: #38,532 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#100Jimenez Gulliford #38,532, 574 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Gulliford is more common than 76.3% of them.

    Origin

    Variant of Gulliver with an altered suffix caused by the association with placenames ending with ford.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 574 people named Gulliford in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 537,884 Americans. That is up 2.5% since 2000, when the Census counted 560.

    #38,532
    rank among US surnames
    574
    people in 2010
    0.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    +2.5%
    change since 2000 (was #37,429)

    Who is named Gulliford

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

    83% of people named Gulliford identified as white (not Hispanic), 8.5% as Black (not Hispanic) and 3.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 83%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 8.5%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.5%
    • Two or more races 3.3%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 1.4%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Gulliford

    Gulliford has the Soundex code G416, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code G416.

    Questions

    Where does the surname Gulliford come from?
    Variant of Gulliver with an altered suffix caused by the association with placenames ending with ford.
    How common is the surname Gulliford?
    574 people in the United States had the surname Gulliford in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 537,884 Americans. It ranked 38,532nd of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Gulliford?
    In the 2010 Census, 83% of people named Gulliford identified as white (not Hispanic), and 8.5% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Gulliford getting more or less common?
    More common. 560 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 574 in 2010, up 2.5%.