Bamford
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Person from Bamford, a place-name in England meaning ‘tree-trunk ford’ (with wooden bridge or marker) (Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history])
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 12 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Bamford is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 1,929 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2010. Bamford is also written Бамфорд in Cyrillic.
- FIFinland1 in 151K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 172K
- SESweden1 in 378K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 8 (measured from records)
- 1 in 151K (inferred from the name graph)
1,929 people, 2010
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: reference-verified
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Bamford in other scripts: Cyrillic
(measured from records)Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Person from Bamford, a place-name in England meaning ‘tree-trunk ford’ (with wooden bridge or marker).
Cited for this meaning 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Where the surname Bamford is found
(measured from records)Bamford counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
1,929 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Bamford is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, from Bamford in Derbyshire or Lancashire; first attested William, Thomas de Bamford 1228 Cur (Sf)
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In English, places (the two main ones being in Derbys. and Lancs.) so called from OE beam, tree, plank + ford Ford, i.e. a ford that could be crossed by means of a tree trunk or plank bridge by those who wished to keep their feet dry. Vars.: Bampford, Bam(p)forth; Balmforth (with intrusive -/-).
as a nameA dictionary of surnames
In English, A place in England:
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Robert Bamfordb. 1883GBBritish engineer and entrepreneur (1883–1942)
- Maria Bamfordb. 1970USAmerican actress (b. 1970)
- Patrick Bamfordb. 1993GBEnglish association football player (born 1993)
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)Evidence
(measured from records)22 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 12 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Bamford mean, and where does it come from?
- Person from Bamford, a place-name in England meaning ‘tree-trunk ford’ (with wooden bridge or marker). Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Bamford?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.9 thousand people named Bamford, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bamford. After it come Finland, Spain, Sweden and Denmark; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Bamford most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Bamford is densest in Finland — about 1 in 151 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Bamford?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,929 people named Bamford in 2010, about 1 in 172 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bamfordThe 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, “Bamford” — ranked 14335th in the United States (Census Bureau). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.