Telford

At the 2020 census, 3,259 Americans bore the surname Telford — 9,538th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 91,700.

By the numbers

People: 3,259
Rank: 9,538th
How common: 1 in 91,700
Per 100,000: 1.1

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 76.6%
Black, not Hispanic 15.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.0%
Hispanic or Latino 3.4%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Telford

Thomas Telford (1757–1834)Scottish civil engineer, architect and stonemason
Carly Telford (born 1987)English association football player
Zoe Telford (born 1973)English actress

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

Surnames like Telford

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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.