Woodford

Woodford is the 6,825th most common surname in the United States, shared by 4,740 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 63,100.

By the numbers

People: 4,740
Rank: 6,825th
How common: 1 in 63,100
Per 100,000: 1.6

Where the name comes from

Origin Old English

From Old English wudu (“wood”) + ford (“ford”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 75.1%
Black, not Hispanic 16.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.8%
Hispanic or Latino 3.2%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%

Surnames like Woodford

Also a first name

Woodford has been given to 578 American babies as a first name since 1911, peaking in 1916. 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.