Rayford

4,386 people in the United States were counted with the surname Rayford in the 2020 census, making it the 7,325th most common in the country. That is about one person in 68,100.

By the numbers

People: 4,386
Rank: 7,325th
How common: 1 in 68,100
Per 100,000: 1.5

Who bears the name

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

Black, not Hispanic 81.8%
White, not Hispanic 8.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 5.9%
Hispanic or Latino 3.2%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Rayford

Robert Rayford (1953–1969)American teenager who died in 1969, thought to be the first death from AIDS in North America

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

Surnames like Rayford

Also a first name

Rayford has been given to 5,516 American babies as a first name since 1896, peaking in 1937. 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.