Benford

3,808 people in the United States were counted with the surname Benford in the 2020 census, making it the 8,321st most common in the country. That is about one person in 78,500.

By the numbers

People: 3,808
Rank: 8,321st
How common: 1 in 78,500
Per 100,000: 1.3

Who bears the name

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

Black, not Hispanic 66.1%
White, not Hispanic 24.2%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 5.4%
Hispanic or Latino 3.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Benford

Gregory Benford (born 1941)science fiction author and astrophysicist
Frank Benford (1883–1948)American electrical engineer & physicist best known for rediscovering Benford's Law

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

Surnames like Benford

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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.