Lunsford

surname · Latin script

Meaning: person from Lunsford, Sussex ('Lund's ford')

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/ˈɫənsfɝd/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Lunsford is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 20K(measured from records)
  • CACanada≈1 in 21K
  • GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 31K

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)

≈71,000 people, est.

Sources
383 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 5.2K (inferred from the name graph)

North Korea, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

person from Lunsford, Sussex ('Lund's ford')

Sources 1

  • Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]

Where in the world(measured from records)

Lunsford 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.

Where Lunsford is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CN China—≈71,000 est.≈1 in 20K—Lunsford3
US United States—16,9621 in 20K17KLunsford383
KP North Korea#551≈4,900 est.≈1 in 5.2K—Lunsford2
GB United Kingdom—≈2,100 est.≈1 in 31K—Lunsford32
CA Canada—≈1,800 est.≈1 in 21K—Lunsford23
EE Estonia—≈100 est.≈1 in 12Klisted—1
AX Åland Islands—≈3 est.≈1 in 8.1K—Lunsford1

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. 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Lunsford is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Russian surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Russia

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Лансфорд, Lansford

38 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Lunsford is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In English, habitational name, probably from Lundsford in East Sussex, so named from an Old English personal name Lundr^d -F Old English ford ‘ford’, or possibly from Lunsford in Kent, although this was earlier called Lullesworthe (from the Old English personal name Lull + word ‘enclosure’); it is not certain whether the development to Lunsford took place early enough to have produced the surname.

    as a nameDictionary of American Family Names

  • In English, locative name from Lundsford, Sussex. Further information: This name is rare in Britain but is thriving in the USA.

    as a nameThe Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and 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)

1850190019502000Bascom Lamar Lunsford, b. 1882Andrea Lunsford, b. 1942Beverly Lunsford, b. 1945Bruce Lunsford, b. 1947Mel Lunsford, b. 1950John Lunsford, b. 1957Scott Lunsford, b. 1979Jennifer Lunsford, b. 1982Oliver Anthony, b. 1992Derek Lunsford, b. 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)

FormalDear Lunsford,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 15 sources across 7 countries.

Official registers attesting Lunsford
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010201017K#2,137
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000200017K#1,981
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020202016K#2,210
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 4

  • 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)

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 Lunsford mean, and where does it come from?
person from Lunsford, Sussex ('Lund's ford') Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
How do you pronounce Lunsford?
A machine transcription gives /ˈɫənsfɝd/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Lunsford have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 71 thousand people named Lunsford in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lunsford.
How common is the name Lunsford?
In the United States, the national register counted 16,962 people named Lunsford in 2010, about 1 in 20 thousand residents.
How common is Lunsford compared with other names?
In North Korea, Lunsford is the 551st most common surname of 2,439 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Lunsford” — the 551st most common surname in North Korea. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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