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    The surname Sifford

    A surname, carried by 1,764 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex S163

    Sifford: #16,338 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Sifford #16,338, 1,764 people Sifford: #16,338 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Sifford #16,338, 1,764 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Sifford is more common than 89.9% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,764 people named Sifford in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 175,026 Americans. That is down 1.4% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,789.

    #16,338
    rank among US surnames
    1,764
    people in 2010
    0.6
    per 100,000 Americans
    -1.4%
    change since 2000 (was #15,125)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #16,338Sifford1,764175,026
    #16,343Scheffer1,763175,125

    Who is named Sifford

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

    79% of people named Sifford identified as white (not Hispanic), 17% as Black (not Hispanic) and 1.6% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 79%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 17%
    • Two or more races 1.6%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.4%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.7%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.3%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Sifford

    Sifford has the Soundex code S163, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S163.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Sifford?
    1,764 people in the United States had the surname Sifford in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 175,026 Americans. It ranked 16,338th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Sifford?
    In the 2010 Census, 79% of people named Sifford identified as white (not Hispanic), and 17% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Sifford getting more or less common?
    Less common. 1,789 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,764 in 2010, down 1.4%.