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    The surname Stratford

    An English place surname, carried by 1,740 people in the United States.

    Pronounced /ˈstɹæt.fɚd/ 2 syllables Soundex S363

    Stratford: #16,509 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Stratford #16,509, 1,740 people Stratford: #16,509 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Stratford #16,509, 1,740 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Stratford is more common than 89.8% of them.

    Origin

    English origin

    From Old English strǣt (“road”) + ford (“ford”). Doublet of Stretford.

    Stratford 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 1,740 people named Stratford in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 177,440 Americans. That is up 7.2% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,623.

    #16,509
    rank among US surnames
    1,740
    people in 2010
    0.6
    per 100,000 Americans
    +7.2%
    change since 2000 (was #16,341)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #16,502Kittredge1,741177,338
    #16,509Everman1,740177,440

    Who is named Stratford

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

    79% of people named Stratford identified as white (not Hispanic), 16% as Black (not Hispanic) and 1.7% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 79%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 16%
    • Two or more races 1.7%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.6%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.8%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.7%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Stratford

    Stratford has the Soundex code S363, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S363.

    Other English surnames

    All 1,446 English surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Stratford come from?
    From Old English strǣt (“road”) + ford (“ford”). Doublet of Stretford.
    How common is the surname Stratford?
    1,740 people in the United States had the surname Stratford in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 177,440 Americans. It ranked 16,509th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Stratford?
    In the 2010 Census, 79% of people named Stratford identified as white (not Hispanic), and 16% as Black (not Hispanic).
    How do you pronounce Stratford?
    Stratford is /ˈstɹæt.fɚd/, 2 syllables.
    What type of surname is Stratford?
    Stratford is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Stratford getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,623 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,740 in 2010, up 7.2%.