Ashford

9,181 people in the United States were counted with the surname Ashford in the 2020 census, making it the 3,768th most common in the country. That is about one person in 32,600.

By the numbers

People: 9,181
Rank: 3,768th
How common: 1 in 32,600
Per 100,000: 3.1

Where the name comes from

From Old English or alternatively. Equivalent.

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

Who bears the name

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

Black, not Hispanic 50.0%
White, not Hispanic 39.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 5.7%
Hispanic or Latino 4.2%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Ashford

Evelyn Ashford (born 1957)American sprinter
Annaleigh Ashford (born 1985)American actress
Daisy Ashford (1881–1972)English writer
Matthew Ashford (born 1960)American actor
Brad Ashford (1949–2022)American politician

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

Surnames like Ashford

Also a first name

Ashford has been given to 502 American babies as a first name since 1914, peaking in 1988. 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.