Oxford

4,339 people in the United States were counted with the surname Oxford in the 2020 census, making it the 7,413th most common in the country. That is about one person in 68,900.

By the numbers

People: 4,339
Rank: 7,413th
How common: 1 in 68,900
Per 100,000: 1.5

Where the name comes from

From Middle English Oxenford, Oxneford, from Old English Oxnaford (“Oxford”), equivalent. Compare Old Norse Öxnafurða.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 83.7%
Black, not Hispanic 5.3%
Hispanic or Latino 4.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.2%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Oxford

Reece Oxford (born 1998)English association football player
Edward Oxford (1822–1900)failed assassin of Queen Victoria

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

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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.