The surname Sandefur
A surname, carried by 2,881 people in the United States.
3 syllables Soundex S531
Origin
Variant of Sandiford.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 2,881 people named Sandefur in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 107,166 Americans. That is up 4.8% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,748.
#11,035
rank among US surnames
2,881
people in 2010
1.0
per 100,000 Americans
+4.8%
change since 2000 (was #10,678)
Who is named Sandefur
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
91% of people named Sandefur identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.6% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- White (not Hispanic) 91%
- Black (not Hispanic) 3.6%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.7%
- Two or more races 1.5%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 1.3%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.3%
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Sandefur has the Soundex code S531, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S531.
Questions
- Where does the surname Sandefur come from?
- Variant of Sandiford.
- How common is the surname Sandefur?
- 2,881 people in the United States had the surname Sandefur in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 107,166 Americans. It ranked 11,035th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Sandefur?
- In the 2010 Census, 91% of people named Sandefur identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.6% as Black (not Hispanic).
- Is the surname Sandefur getting more or less common?
- More common. 2,748 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,881 in 2010, up 4.8%.