Manford
given name · Latin script
Meaning: possibly a habitational name from a lost or unidentified place
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 7 countries · latest register: Guyana, 2025
Manford is a male given name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- CACanada
- USUnited States
- GBUnited Kingdom
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)possibly a habitational name from a lost or unidentified place.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world
(measured from records)Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Jeanne Manfordb. 1920USAmerican schoolteacher and activist (1920–2013)
- Donald Manfordb. 1934USAmerican politician in Missouri (1934-1991)
- Jason Manfordb. 1981GBEnglish comedian, television presenter, and actor
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)15 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 432 | #22,829 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 300 | #70,358 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 275 | #67,113 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 269 | #72,332 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1918 | 49 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1916 | 47 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1930 | 46 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1920 | 46 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1919 | 46 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1924 | 44 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1915 | 44 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1928 | 43 | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Manford mean, and where does it come from?
- possibly a habitational name from a lost or unidentified place. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- Is Manford a male or female name?
- Manford is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: United States (Census Bureau, 2020).
- In which country does Manford have the most bearers?
- Manford is most frequently recorded in the United States.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/manfordThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Manford”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.