The surname Rainford
An English place surname, carried by 897 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex R516
Origin
English origin
From Old Norse rein (“boundary”), Old Norse roynir (“rowan”) or the Old English personal name *Regna + ford (“ford”).
Rainford 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 897 people named Rainford in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 344,198 Americans. That is up 23% since 2000, when the Census counted 729.
Who is named Rainford
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
48% of people named Rainford identified as white (not Hispanic), 46% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.5% as two or more races.
- White (not Hispanic) 48%
- Black (not Hispanic) 46%
- Two or more races 2.5%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.2%
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Variant spellings
- Ranford
Rainford has the Soundex code R516, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code R516.
Other English surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname Rainford come from?
- From Old Norse rein (“boundary”), Old Norse roynir (“rowan”) or the Old English personal name *Regna + ford (“ford”).
- How common is the surname Rainford?
- 897 people in the United States had the surname Rainford in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 344,198 Americans. It ranked 27,021st of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Rainford?
- In the 2010 Census, 48% of people named Rainford identified as white (not Hispanic), and 46% as Black (not Hispanic).
- What type of surname is Rainford?
- Rainford is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
- Is the surname Rainford getting more or less common?
- More common. 729 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 897 in 2010, up 23%.
- What are other spellings of Rainford?
- Ranford.