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    The surname Williford

    A surname, carried by 8,352 people in the United States.

    3 syllables Soundex W416

    Williford: #4,248 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Williford #4,248, 8,352 people Williford: #4,248 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Williford #4,248, 8,352 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Williford is more common than 97.4% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 8,352 people named Williford in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 36,967 Americans. That is up 3.4% since 2000, when the Census counted 8,080.

    #4,248
    rank among US surnames
    8,352
    people in 2010
    2.8
    per 100,000 Americans
    +3.4%
    change since 2000 (was #4,038)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #4,239Houle8,36436,914
    #4,240Hales8,36336,918
    #4,241Nemeth8,36236,922
    #4,242Wingate8,35936,936
    #4,245Hennessey8,35736,945
    #4,246Cochrane8,35536,953
    #4,247Damron8,35436,958

    Who is named Williford

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

    79% of people named Williford identified as white (not Hispanic), 16% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 79%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 16%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.0%
    • Two or more races 1.9%
    • 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 Williford

    Williford has the Soundex code W416, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code W416.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Williford?
    8,352 people in the United States had the surname Williford in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 36,967 Americans. It ranked 4,248th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Williford?
    In the 2010 Census, 79% of people named Williford identified as white (not Hispanic), and 16% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Williford getting more or less common?
    More common. 8,080 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 8,352 in 2010, up 3.4%.