Langford
surname · Latin script
Meaning: person from Langford, various English places meaning ‘long ford’
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/laŋfəd/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Langford is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- AUAustralia≈1 in 9.3K(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 11K
- USUnited States1 in 17K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 398 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈65,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Dominica
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
person from Langford, various English places meaning ‘long ford’.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Where in the world(measured from records)
Langford 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈65,000 est. | ≈1 in 21K | — | Langford | 7 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈21,000 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Langford | 2 |
| US United States | — | 19,208 | 1 in 17K | 19K | Langford | 398 |
| GB United Kingdom | #956 | ≈6,200 est. | ≈1 in 11K | listed | Langford | 199 |
| AU Australia | #889 | ≈2,700 est. | ≈1 in 9.3K | — | Langford | 162 |
| NZ New Zealand | #832 | ≈510 est. | ≈1 in 9.7K | — | Langford | 75 |
| DM Dominica | — | 38 | 1 in 2K | 38 | — | 1 |
| WS Samoa | — | ≈18 est. | ≈1 in 11K | 19 | — | 1 |
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; the hanks-dictionary-surnames-1988 register; Dominica — Revised List of Electors May 2025; This page provides a list of American Samoan surnames starting with the letter 'l', and it is published on surnam.es.. 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)
Langford is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
habitational name from any of the numerous places named in Old Fnglish as ‘long ford’, from lang, long ‘long’ + ford ‘ford’, except for Langford in Nottinghamshire, which is named with an Old Fnglish personal name Landa or possibly land, here used in a specific sense such as ‘boundary’ or ‘district’, with the same second element.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In English, numerous places so called from OE lang, long Long + ford Ford. Vars.: Longford, Langsford.
as a nameA dictionary of surnames
In English, The name of five villages in England:
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Irish, This English toponymic mainly associated in Ireland with south-west Munster, came to Ulster in the sixteenth century and was later established in Cos. Limerick and Kerry
as a nameThe Surnames of Ireland
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)
- Nathaniel P. Langfordb. 1832USAmerican explorer, businessman, historian and vigilante (1832-1911)
- Sam Langfordb. 1883CACanadian boxer (1886–1956)
- William Langfordb. 1896CACanadian rower (1896-1973)
- Frances Langfordb. 1913USAmerican singer and actress (1913–2005)
- David Langfordb. 1953GBBritish writer
- Keith Langfordb. 1983USAmerican basketball player (born 1983)
- Kevin Langfordb. 1985USAmerican basketball player (born 1985)
- Katherine Langfordb. 1996AUAustralian actress (born 1996)
- Josephine Langfordb. 1997AUAustralian actress
- Romeo Langfordb. 1999USAmerican basketball player (born 1999)
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)
Attested in 32 sources across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 19K | #1,870 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 19K | #1,763 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 18K | #1,913 |
| DM Dominica | Dominica — Revised List of Electors May 2025 | 2025 | 38 | #189 |
| GB United Kingdom | A Dictionary of Surnames (Hanks & Hodges, 1988) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Langford mean, and where does it come from?
- person from Langford, various English places meaning ‘long ford’. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Langford?
- A machine transcription gives /laŋfəd/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Langford have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 65 thousand people named Langford in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled langford.
- Where is Langford most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Langford is densest in Dominica — about 1 in 2.0 thousand people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Langford?
- In the United States, the national register counted 19,208 people named Langford in 2010, about 1 in 17 thousand residents.
- How common is Langford compared with other names?
- In New Zealand, Langford is the 832nd most common surname of 87,225 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Langford?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/langfordThe 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, “Langford” — the 832nd most common surname in New Zealand. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.