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    The surname Lanford

    An English surname, carried by 2,455 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex L516

    Lanford: #12,607 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Lanford #12,607, 2,455 people Lanford: #12,607 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Lanford #12,607, 2,455 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Lanford is more common than 92.2% of them.

    Origin

    English origin

    From Old English hlynn (“roaring stream”) + ford (“ford”).

    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 2,455 people named Lanford in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 125,762 Americans. That is up 13% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,167.

    #12,607
    rank among US surnames
    2,455
    people in 2010
    0.8
    per 100,000 Americans
    +13.3%
    change since 2000 (was #12,971)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #12,602Lichtenstein2,456125,711
    #12,607Lanford2,455125,762
    #12,613Durgin2,454125,813
    #12,616Gordan2,453125,864

    Who is named Lanford

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

    85% of people named Lanford identified as white (not Hispanic), 6.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 6.0% as Black (not Hispanic).

    • White (not Hispanic) 85%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 6.7%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 6.0%
    • Two or more races 1.8%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.7%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Lanford

    Lanford has the Soundex code L516, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code L516.

    Other English surnames

    All 1,446 English surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Lanford come from?
    From Old English hlynn (“roaring stream”) + ford (“ford”).
    How common is the surname Lanford?
    2,455 people in the United States had the surname Lanford in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 125,762 Americans. It ranked 12,607th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Lanford?
    In the 2010 Census, 85% of people named Lanford identified as white (not Hispanic), and 6.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    Is the surname Lanford getting more or less common?
    More common. 2,167 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,455 in 2010, up 13%.