Beckford

Beckford is the 6,820th most common surname in the United States, shared by 4,746 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 63,000.

By the numbers

People: 4,746
Rank: 6,820th
How common: 1 in 63,000
Per 100,000: 1.6

Where the name comes from

Origin Old English

From the Old English personal name Becca + ford (“ford”).

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

Who bears the name

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

Black, not Hispanic 77.8%
White, not Hispanic 9.7%
Hispanic or Latino 7.2%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.06%

Notable people called Beckford

William Beckford (1760–1844)English slaver, art collector, and novelist
Tyson Beckford (born 1970)American model and actor
Jermaine Beckford (born 1983)Jamaican footballer
James Beckford (born 1975)Jamaican long and triple jumper
Allison Beckford (born 1979)athletics competitor
William Beckford (1709–1770)English politician and slave owner

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

Surnames like Beckford

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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.