The surname Lansford
An English place surname, carried by 1,682 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex L521
Origin
English origin
Habitational surname from Old English landscearu (“boundary”) + ford.
Lansford 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 1,682 people named Lansford in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 183,559 Americans. That is up 5.2% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,599.
Who is named Lansford
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
92% of people named Lansford identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.8% as two or more races.
- White (not Hispanic) 92%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.6%
- Two or more races 1.8%
- Black (not Hispanic) 1.6%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 1.1%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%
Spellings and sound-alikes
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Lansford has the Soundex code L521, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code L521.
Other English surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname Lansford come from?
- Habitational surname from Old English landscearu (“boundary”) + ford.
- How common is the surname Lansford?
- 1,682 people in the United States had the surname Lansford in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 183,559 Americans. It ranked 16,919th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Lansford?
- In the 2010 Census, 92% of people named Lansford identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- What type of surname is Lansford?
- Lansford is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
- Is the surname Lansford getting more or less common?
- More common. 1,599 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,682 in 2010, up 5.2%.