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The surname Offord

An English place surname, carried by 1,174 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex O163

Offord: #22,069 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Offord #22,069, 1,174 people Offord: #22,069 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Offord #22,069, 1,174 people
Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Offord is more common than 86.4% of them.

Origin

English origin

From Old English uppe (“up”) + ford (“ford”).

Offord 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 1,174 people named Offord in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 262,986 Americans. That is up 4.7% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,121.

#22,069
rank among US surnames
1,174
people in 2010
0.4
per 100,000 Americans
+4.7%
change since 2000 (was #21,666)

Who is named Offord

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

63% of people named Offord identified as Black (not Hispanic), 31% as white (not Hispanic) and 2.6% as two or more races.

  • Black (not Hispanic) 63%
  • White (not Hispanic) 31%
  • Two or more races 2.6%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.9%
  • Asian and Pacific Islander 1.1%
  • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.6%

Compare: most common surnames among Black Americans.

Other English surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Offord come from?
From Old English uppe (“up”) + ford (“ford”).
How common is the surname Offord?
1,174 people in the United States had the surname Offord in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 262,986 Americans. It ranked 22,069th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Offord?
In the 2010 Census, 63% of people named Offord identified as Black (not Hispanic), and 31% as white (not Hispanic).
What type of surname is Offord?
Offord is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
Is the surname Offord getting more or less common?
More common. 1,121 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,174 in 2010, up 4.7%.