Lunsford
surname · Latin script
Meaning: person from Lunsford, Sussex ('Lund's ford')
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 7 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Lunsford is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- EEEstonia≈1 in 12K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 20K
- CACanada≈1 in 21K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). 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)
- Record sources
- 383 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 5.2K (inferred from the name graph)
16,962 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
North Korea, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)person from Lunsford, Sussex ('Lund's ford')
Cited for this meaning 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 16,962 | 1 in 20K | 17K | Lunsford | 383 |
| KP North Korea | #551 | ≈4,900 est. | ≈1 in 5.2K | — | Lunsford | 2 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 31K | — | Lunsford | 32 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 21K | — | Lunsford | 23 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 47K | — | Lunsford | 7 |
| IE Ireland | — | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 21K | — | Lunsford | 2 |
| EE Estonia | — | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 12K | listed | — | 1 |
| AX Åland Islands | — | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 8.1K | — | Lunsford | 1 |
16,962 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. 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)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)- Bascom Lamar Lunsfordb. 1882USAmerican musician and lawyer
- Andrea Lunsfordb. 1942USProfessor of English
- Beverly Lunsfordb. 1945USAmerican actress (1945–2019)
- Bruce Lunsfordb. 1947USAmerican racehorse owner and breeder
- Mel Lunsfordb. 1950USAmerican football player
- John Lunsfordb. 1957USAmerican politician and businessman from Georgia
- Scott Lunsfordb. 1979USAmerican actor
- Jennifer Lunsfordb. 1982USNew York State politician
- Oliver Anthonyb. 1992USnot in their usual nameAmerican singer-songwriter
- Derek Lunsfordb. 1993USAmerican professional bodybuilder
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)15 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 17K | #2,137 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 17K | #1,981 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 16K | #2,210 |
| US United States | wru 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].
- In which country does Lunsford have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 17 thousand people named Lunsford, 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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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lunsfordThe 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, “Lunsford” — the 551st most common surname in North Korea. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.