How common is the surname Sandiford?

1,185 people in the United States had the surname Sandiford in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 260,545 Americans. It ranked 21,912th of 162,253 surnames.

Is the surname Sandiford getting more or less common?

More common. 987 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,185 in 2010, up 20%.

What are other spellings of Sandiford?

Sandefer, Sandefur and Sandifer.

The surname Sandiford

An English place surname, carried by 1,185 people in the United States.

3 syllables Soundex S531

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Sandiford is more common than 86.5% of them.

Origin

English origin

Habitational surname from a lost place in Lancashire or Yorkshire, from Old English sandiġ (“sandy”) + ford (“ford”); compare Sandford.

Sandiford 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 1,185 people named Sandiford in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 260,545 Americans. That is up 20% since 2000, when the Census counted 987.

#21,912

rank among US surnames

1,185

people in 2010

0.4

per 100,000 Americans

+20.1%

change since 2000 (was #23,884)

Who is named Sandiford

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

50% of people named Sandiford identified as Black (not Hispanic), 40% as white (not Hispanic) and 6.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Black (not Hispanic) 50%
White (not Hispanic) 40%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 6.5%
Two or more races 3.2%

The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American are not shown.

Compare: most common surnames among Black Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Variant spellings

Surnames that sound like Sandiford

Sandiford has the Soundex code S531, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S531.

Other English surnames

All 1,446 English surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Sandiford come from?: Habitational surname from a lost place in Lancashire or Yorkshire, from Old English sandiġ (“sandy”) + ford (“ford”); compare Sandford.
How common is the surname Sandiford?: 1,185 people in the United States had the surname Sandiford in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 260,545 Americans. It ranked 21,912th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Sandiford?: In the 2010 Census, 50% of people named Sandiford identified as Black (not Hispanic), and 40% as white (not Hispanic).
What type of surname is Sandiford?: Sandiford is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
Is the surname Sandiford getting more or less common?: More common. 987 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,185 in 2010, up 20%.
What are other spellings of Sandiford?: Sandefer, Sandefur and Sandifer.