The surname Winford
An English place surname, carried by 1,311 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex W516
Origin
English origin
Perhaps from Old English winn (“meadow”) + ford (“ford”).
Winford 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 1,311 people named Winford in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 235,504 Americans. That is up 5.1% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,247.
Who is named Winford
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
48% of people named Winford identified as white (not Hispanic), 46% as Black (not Hispanic) and 3.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- White (not Hispanic) 48%
- Black (not Hispanic) 46%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.4%
- Two or more races 1.4%
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Winford has the Soundex code W516, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code W516.
Other English surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname Winford come from?
- Perhaps from Old English winn (“meadow”) + ford (“ford”).
- How common is the surname Winford?
- 1,311 people in the United States had the surname Winford in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 235,504 Americans. It ranked 20,285th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Winford?
- In the 2010 Census, 48% of people named Winford identified as white (not Hispanic), and 46% as Black (not Hispanic).
- What type of surname is Winford?
- Winford is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
- Is the surname Winford getting more or less common?
- More common. 1,247 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,311 in 2010, up 5.1%.