# Walford (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/walford/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A habitational surname from Old English.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | English |
| Type | place, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 806 |
| US rank (2010) | 29,334 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 383,059 people |
| Change since 2000 | -9.6% (892 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

Various origins: * The village in Shropshire is named with Old English wella (“well, spring, stream”) + ford (“ford”). * The village in Herefordshire is named with Old English wealh (“foreigner; Briton”) + ford (“ford”).

## Who carries it

Share of people named Walford in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 68% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 26% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 3.6% |
| Two or more races | 2.1% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Walford in the United States.

## People named Walford

- Roy L. Walford, American life extensionist and one of the original crew of Biosphere 2 (1924–2004)

## Similar surnames

Wolford, Williford, Wilford, Woolford, Willeford, Wohlford, Welford, Wilfred, Walbridge, Wilburn, Wilbur, Welborn.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.