How common is the surname Wolford?

10,789 people in the United States had the surname Wolford in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 28,617 Americans. It ranked 3,326th of 162,253 surnames.

Is the surname Wolford getting more or less common?

More common. 10,738 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 10,789 in 2010, up 0.5%.

The surname Wolford

An English place surname, carried by 10,789 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex W416

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Wolford is more common than 98% of them.

Origin

English origin

From Old English wulf (“wolf”) + weard (“guard, protector”). The second element was at some point misanalyzed as ford.

Wolford 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 10,789 people named Wolford in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 28,617 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 10,738.

#3,326

rank among US surnames

10,789

people in 2010

3.7

per 100,000 Americans

+0.5%

change since 2000 (was #3,096)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#3,317	Pauley	10,809	28,564
#3,318	Haddad	10,804	28,577
#3,319	Reiter	10,802	28,582
#3,320	Van	10,798	28,593
#3,322	Robins	10,797	28,595
#3,323	Laney	10,796	28,598
#3,324	Custer	10,790	28,614

Who is named Wolford

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

92% of people named Wolford identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.5% as Black (not Hispanic) and 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 92%
Black (not Hispanic) 3.5%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.9%
Two or more races 1.6%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.8%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Wolford

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

Other English surnames

All 1,446 English surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Wolford come from?: From Old English wulf (“wolf”) + weard (“guard, protector”). The second element was at some point misanalyzed as ford.
How common is the surname Wolford?: 10,789 people in the United States had the surname Wolford in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 28,617 Americans. It ranked 3,326th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Wolford?: In the 2010 Census, 92% of people named Wolford identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.5% as Black (not Hispanic).
What type of surname is Wolford?: Wolford is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
Is the surname Wolford getting more or less common?: More common. 10,738 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 10,789 in 2010, up 0.5%.