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    The surname Holford

    An English place surname, carried by 1,256 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex H416

    Holford: #20,961 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Holford #20,961, 1,256 people Holford: #20,961 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Holford #20,961, 1,256 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Holford is more common than 87.1% of them.

    Origin

    English origin

    From Old English holh (“hole; hollow, sunken”) + ford (“ford”).

    Holford 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 1,256 people named Holford in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 245,817 Americans. That is up 3.0% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,219.

    #20,961
    rank among US surnames
    1,256
    people in 2010
    0.4
    per 100,000 Americans
    +3%
    change since 2000 (was #20,298)

    Who is named Holford

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

    78% of people named Holford identified as white (not Hispanic), 13% as Black (not Hispanic) and 4.1% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 78%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 13%
    • Two or more races 4.1%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.6%
    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 Holford

    Holford has the Soundex code H416, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code H416.

    Other English surnames

    All 1,446 English surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Holford come from?
    From Old English holh (“hole; hollow, sunken”) + ford (“ford”).
    How common is the surname Holford?
    1,256 people in the United States had the surname Holford in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 245,817 Americans. It ranked 20,961st of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Holford?
    In the 2010 Census, 78% of people named Holford identified as white (not Hispanic), and 13% as Black (not Hispanic).
    What type of surname is Holford?
    Holford is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Holford getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,219 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,256 in 2010, up 3.0%.