How common is the surname Montford?

1,277 people in the United States had the surname Montford in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 241,774 Americans. It ranked 20,709th of 162,253 surnames.

Is the surname Montford getting more or less common?

More common. 1,273 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,277 in 2010, up 0.3%.

The surname Montford

An English place surname, carried by 1,277 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex M531

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Montford is more common than 87.2% of them.

Origin

English origin

Recorded as Maneford in the Domesday Book, the village's name derives from Old English ġemǣne (“common, general, communal”) + ford (“ford”). The surname could also be a variant of Mundford.

Montford 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 1,277 people named Montford in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 241,774 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 1,273.

#20,709

rank among US surnames

1,277

people in 2010

0.4

per 100,000 Americans

+0.3%

change since 2000 (was #19,599)

Who is named Montford

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

57% of people named Montford identified as Black (not Hispanic), 37% as white (not Hispanic) and 3.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Black (not Hispanic) 57%
White (not Hispanic) 37%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.0%
Two or more races 1.8%

The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American are not shown.

Compare: most common surnames among Black Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

Variant spellings

Mountford

Surnames that sound like Montford

Montufar

Montford has the Soundex code M531, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code M531.

Other English surnames

All 1,446 English surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Montford come from?: Recorded as Maneford in the Domesday Book, the village's name derives from Old English ġemǣne (“common, general, communal”) + ford (“ford”). The surname could also be a variant of Mundford.
How common is the surname Montford?: 1,277 people in the United States had the surname Montford in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 241,774 Americans. It ranked 20,709th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Montford?: In the 2010 Census, 57% of people named Montford identified as Black (not Hispanic), and 37% as white (not Hispanic).
What type of surname is Montford?: Montford is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
Is the surname Montford getting more or less common?: More common. 1,273 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,277 in 2010, up 0.3%.
What are other spellings of Montford?: Mountford.