The surname Wallingford
A place surname, carried by 1,775 people in the United States.
3 syllables Soundex W452
Origin
An English habitational surname from the place name.
Wallingford 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 1,775 people named Wallingford in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 173,941 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 1,776.
Who is named Wallingford
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
92% of people named Wallingford identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.5% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.4% as two or more races.
- White (not Hispanic) 92%
- Black (not Hispanic) 2.5%
- Two or more races 2.4%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.7%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.6%
Spellings and sound-alikes
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Surnames that sound like Wallingford
Wallingford has the Soundex code W452, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code W452.
Questions
- How common is the surname Wallingford?
- 1,775 people in the United States had the surname Wallingford in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 173,941 Americans. It ranked 16,254th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Wallingford?
- In the 2010 Census, 92% of people named Wallingford identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.5% as Black (not Hispanic).
- What type of surname is Wallingford?
- Wallingford is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
- Is the surname Wallingford getting more or less common?
- Less common. 1,776 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,775 in 2010, down 0.1%.