How common is the surname Lipford?

2,341 people in the United States had the surname Lipford in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 131,886 Americans. It ranked 13,099th of 162,253 surnames.

Is the surname Lipford getting more or less common?

More common. 2,238 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,341 in 2010, up 4.6%.

The surname Lipford

A surname, carried by 2,341 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex L163

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Lipford is more common than 91.9% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 2,341 people named Lipford in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 131,886 Americans. That is up 4.6% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,238.

#13,099

rank among US surnames

2,341

people in 2010

0.8

per 100,000 Americans

+4.6%

change since 2000 (was #12,677)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#13,091	DiMatteo	2,343	131,774
#13,096	Highland	2,342	131,830
#13,099	Lipford	2,341	131,886
#13,101	Vansant	2,340	131,943
#13,107	Glowacki	2,339	131,999

Who is named Lipford

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

60% of people named Lipford identified as white (not Hispanic), 36% as Black (not Hispanic) and 1.8% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 60%
Black (not Hispanic) 36%
Two or more races 1.8%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.6%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.3%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Lipford

Lipford has the Soundex code L163, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code L163.

Questions

How common is the surname Lipford?: 2,341 people in the United States had the surname Lipford in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 131,886 Americans. It ranked 13,099th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Lipford?: In the 2010 Census, 60% of people named Lipford identified as white (not Hispanic), and 36% as Black (not Hispanic).
Is the surname Lipford getting more or less common?: More common. 2,238 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,341 in 2010, up 4.6%.