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    The surname Raiford

    A surname, carried by 2,304 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex R163

    Raiford: #13,251 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Raiford #13,251, 2,304 people Raiford: #13,251 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Raiford #13,251, 2,304 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Raiford is more common than 91.8% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 2,304 people named Raiford in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 134,004 Americans. That is up 6.2% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,169.

    #13,251
    rank among US surnames
    2,304
    people in 2010
    0.8
    per 100,000 Americans
    +6.2%
    change since 2000 (was #12,961)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #13,246Yousef2,305133,946
    #13,251Amey2,304134,004
    #13,255Blackledge2,303134,062
    #13,259Hershman2,302134,121

    Who is named Raiford

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

    48% of people named Raiford identified as Black (not Hispanic), 47% as white (not Hispanic) and 2.1% as two or more races.

    • Black (not Hispanic) 48%
    • White (not Hispanic) 47%
    • Two or more races 2.1%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.3%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.7%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%

    Compare: most common surnames among Black Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Raiford

    Raiford has the Soundex code R163, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code R163.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Raiford?
    2,304 people in the United States had the surname Raiford in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 134,004 Americans. It ranked 13,251st of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Raiford?
    In the 2010 Census, 48% of people named Raiford identified as Black (not Hispanic), and 47% as white (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Raiford getting more or less common?
    More common. 2,169 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,304 in 2010, up 6.2%.