Alford

Alford is the 1,165th most common surname in the United States, shared by 29,646 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 10,100.

By the numbers

People: 29,646
Rank: 1,165th
How common: 1 in 10,100
Per 100,000: 9.9

Where the name comes from

Origin Old English

From the Old English female given name Ealdgȳþ + ford (“ford”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Alford described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 61.9%
Black, not Hispanic 29.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.1%
Hispanic or Latino 3.1%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Alford

Steve Alford (born 1964)American basketball coach and player
Phillip Alford (born 1948)American actor
Alexis Alford (born 1998)American traveler, photographer, and YouTuber; youngest person to travel to every country
Henry Alford (1810–1871)English churchman, theologian, textual critic, scholar, poet, hymnodist, and writer
Kenneth J. Alford (1881–1945)English composer

People named Alford with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Alford

Also a first name

Alford has been given to 4,795 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1930. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.