Halford

At the 2020 census, 2,994 Americans bore the surname Halford — 10,241st out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 99,800.

By the numbers

People: 2,994
Rank: 10,241st
How common: 1 in 99,800
Per 100,000: 1.0

Where the name comes from

Origin Old English

From Old English healh (“nook, corner; recess”) + ford (“ford”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 87.1%
Black, not Hispanic 4.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.0%
Hispanic or Latino 3.1%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Halford

Rob Halford (born 1951)British heavy metal singer
Bruce Halford (1931–2001)racecar driver
Greg Halford (born 1984)English association football player

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

Surnames like Halford

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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.