The surname Sanford
A place surname, carried by 36,312 people in the United States.
Pronounced /ˈsænfɚd/ 2 syllables Soundex S516 Also a first name
Origin
Reduced variant of Sandford.
Sanford is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 36,312 people named Sanford in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 8,503 Americans. That is up 2.1% since 2000, when the Census counted 35,565.
Who is named Sanford
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
77% of people named Sanford identified as white (not Hispanic), 18% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- White (not Hispanic) 77%
- Black (not Hispanic) 18%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.4%
- Two or more races 2.0%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.7%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Sanford has the Soundex code S516, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S516.
Questions
- Where does the surname Sanford come from?
- Reduced variant of Sandford.
- How common is the surname Sanford?
- 36,312 people in the United States had the surname Sanford in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 8,503 Americans. It ranked 957th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Sanford?
- In the 2010 Census, 77% of people named Sanford identified as white (not Hispanic), and 18% as Black (not Hispanic).
- How do you pronounce Sanford?
- Sanford is /ˈsænfɚd/, 2 syllables.
- What type of surname is Sanford?
- Sanford is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
- Is the surname Sanford getting more or less common?
- More common. 35,565 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 36,312 in 2010, up 2.1%.
- Is Sanford also a first name?
- Yes. Sanford is used as a first name as well as a surname; its first-name page has the meaning and how many babies were given it.