# Sanderford (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/sanderford/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname from Old English.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | English |
| Type | place, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 655 |
| US rank (2010) | 34,539 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 471,367 people |
| Change since 2000 | +17% (559 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

It may be a habitational surname from a place called Sandford, from Old English sand + ford.

## Who carries it

Share of people named Sanderford in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 85% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 7.5% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 3.0% |
| Two or more races | 2.9% |

## Similar surnames

Sanders, Saunders, Sanderson, Sander, Sanderlin, Sandridge, Sandor, Santore, Snyder, Schneider, Snider, Santoro.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.