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    The surname Lyford

    An English place surname, carried by 1,101 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex L163

    Lyford: #23,167 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Lyford #23,167, 1,101 people Lyford: #23,167 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Lyford #23,167, 1,101 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Lyford is more common than 85.7% of them.

    Origin

    English origin

    From Old English līn (“flax”) + ford (“ford”).

    Lyford 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 1,101 people named Lyford in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 280,423 Americans. That is up 8.2% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,018.

    #23,167
    rank among US surnames
    1,101
    people in 2010
    0.4
    per 100,000 Americans
    +8.2%
    change since 2000 (was #23,326)

    Who is named Lyford

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

    95% of people named Lyford identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.4% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 95%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.1%
    • Two or more races 1.4%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.9%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Native American are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Variant spellings

    • Liford

    Surnames that sound like Lyford

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

    Other English surnames

    All 1,446 English surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Lyford come from?
    From Old English līn (“flax”) + ford (“ford”).
    How common is the surname Lyford?
    1,101 people in the United States had the surname Lyford in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 280,423 Americans. It ranked 23,167th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Lyford?
    In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Lyford identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    What type of surname is Lyford?
    Lyford is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Lyford getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,018 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,101 in 2010, up 8.2%.
    What are other spellings of Lyford?
    Liford.