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    The surname Sanderford

    An English place surname, carried by 655 people in the United States.

    3 syllables Soundex S536

    Sanderford: #34,539 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Sanderford #34,539, 655 people Sanderford: #34,539 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#100Jimenez Sanderford #34,539, 655 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Sanderford is more common than 78.7% of them.

    Origin

    English origin

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

    Sanderford 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 655 people named Sanderford in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 471,367 Americans. That is up 17% since 2000, when the Census counted 559.

    #34,539
    rank among US surnames
    655
    people in 2010
    0.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    +17.2%
    change since 2000 (was #37,480)

    Who is named Sanderford

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

    85% of people named Sanderford identified as white (not Hispanic), 7.5% as Black (not Hispanic) and 3.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 85%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 7.5%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.0%
    • Two or more races 2.9%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Sanderford

    Sanderford has the Soundex code S536, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S536.

    Other English surnames

    All 1,446 English surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Sanderford come from?
    It may be a habitational surname from a place called Sandford, from Old English sand + ford.
    How common is the surname Sanderford?
    655 people in the United States had the surname Sanderford in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 471,367 Americans. It ranked 34,539th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Sanderford?
    In the 2010 Census, 85% of people named Sanderford identified as white (not Hispanic), and 7.5% as Black (not Hispanic).
    What type of surname is Sanderford?
    Sanderford is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Sanderford getting more or less common?
    More common. 559 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 655 in 2010, up 17%.