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    The surname Shillingford

    An English place surname, carried by 582 people in the United States.

    3 syllables Soundex S452

    Shillingford: #38,103 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Shillingford #38,103, 582 people Shillingford: #38,103 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#100Jimenez Shillingford #38,103, 582 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Shillingford is more common than 76.5% of them.

    Origin

    English origin

    Possibly from an Old English personal name *Sciella + -ing (“belonging to”) + ford (“ford”).

    Shillingford 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 582 people named Shillingford in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 530,491 Americans. That is up 32% since 2000, when the Census counted 442.

    #38,103
    rank among US surnames
    582
    people in 2010
    0.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    +31.7%
    change since 2000 (was #45,573)

    Who is named Shillingford

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

    65% of people named Shillingford identified as Black (not Hispanic), 23% as white (not Hispanic) and 6.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • Black (not Hispanic) 65%
    • White (not Hispanic) 23%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 6.2%
    • Two or more races 4.8%
    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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    Surnames that sound like Shillingford

    Shillingford has the Soundex code S452, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S452.

    Other English surnames

    All 1,446 English surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Shillingford come from?
    Possibly from an Old English personal name *Sciella + -ing (“belonging to”) + ford (“ford”).
    How common is the surname Shillingford?
    582 people in the United States had the surname Shillingford in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 530,491 Americans. It ranked 38,103rd of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Shillingford?
    In the 2010 Census, 65% of people named Shillingford identified as Black (not Hispanic), and 23% as white (not Hispanic).
    What type of surname is Shillingford?
    Shillingford is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Shillingford getting more or less common?
    More common. 442 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 582 in 2010, up 32%.