Radford

At the 2020 census, 12,286 Americans bore the surname Radford — 2,863rd out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 24,300.

By the numbers

People: 12,286
Rank: 2,863rd
How common: 1 in 24,300
Per 100,000: 4.1

Where the name comes from

Origin Old English

From Old English rēad (“red”) + ford (“ford”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 75.4%
Black, not Hispanic 16.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.5%
Hispanic or Latino 2.5%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Radford

Michael Radford (born 1946)British film director
Eric Radford (born 1985)Canadian pair skater
Peter Radford (born 1939)British athlete
John Radford (born 1947)English football player
Basil Radford (1897–1952)British actor
Arthur William Radford (1896–1973)United States naval aviator

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

Surnames like Radford

Also a first name

Radford has been given to 1,204 American babies as a first name since 1885, peaking in 1935. 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.