Buford

8,587 people in the United States were counted with the surname Buford in the 2020 census, making it the 4,014th most common in the country. That is about one person in 34,800.

By the numbers

People: 8,587
Rank: 4,014th
How common: 1 in 34,800
Per 100,000: 2.9

Where the name comes from

From Old English burg (“castle”) + ford (“ford”).

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

Who bears the name

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

Black, not Hispanic 54.3%
White, not Hispanic 36.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 5.0%
Hispanic or Latino 3.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Buford

John Buford (1826–1863)Union Army General

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

Surnames like Buford

Buffington

Also a first name

Buford has been given to 10,964 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1921. 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.