The surname Woodfork
A surname, carried by 1,304 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex W316
Origin
A surname.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 1,304 people named Woodfork in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 236,768 Americans. That is up 12% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,162.
#20,382
rank among US surnames
1,304
people in 2010
0.4
per 100,000 Americans
+12.2%
change since 2000 (was #21,069)
Who is named Woodfork
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
87% of people named Woodfork identified as Black (not Hispanic), 6.0% as white (not Hispanic) and 4.6% as two or more races.
- Black (not Hispanic) 87%
- White (not Hispanic) 6.0%
- Two or more races 4.6%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.8%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%
Spellings and sound-alikes
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Surnames that sound like Woodfork
Woodfork has the Soundex code W316, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code W316.
Questions
- How common is the surname Woodfork?
- 1,304 people in the United States had the surname Woodfork in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 236,768 Americans. It ranked 20,382nd of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Woodfork?
- In the 2010 Census, 87% of people named Woodfork identified as Black (not Hispanic), and 6.0% as white (not Hispanic).
- Is the surname Woodfork getting more or less common?
- More common. 1,162 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,304 in 2010, up 12%.