Wakeford
surname · Latin script
Meaning: From Wakeford, an unidentified English place-name meaning 'Waca's ford'
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/wejkfəd/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Wakeford is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- GBUnited Kingdom
- USUnited States
- ZASouth Africa
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)
From Wakeford, an unidentified English place-name meaning 'Waca's ford'.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
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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)
Wakeford 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, place, presumably so called from the OE byname Waca ‘Watchful’ (see Wake) + OE ford Ford. There was one Waller see Wheeler Wailes see Wale
as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
In English, A surname from Old English.
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)
- Edward Wakefordb. 1894GBmathematician (1894-1916)
- Richard Wakefordb. 1921GBRecipient of the Victoria Cross (1921-1972)
- Kent L. Wakefordb. 1928USAmerican cinematographer
- Tony Wakefordb. 1959GBBritish musician
- Mark Robert Wakefordb. 1966GB(born 1966)
- James Richard Wakefordb. 1968GB(born 1968)
- Ian Frederick Wakefordb. 1974GB(born 1974)
- Christian Wakefordb. 1984GBBritish politician
- Hannah R WakefordGBresearcher
- Richard WakefordGBresearcher
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 15 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 1.4K | #5,023 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 301 | #65,782 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 293 | #63,632 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 283 | #73,776 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 13 | #105,312 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 9 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 5 | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 4 | #118,617 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 3 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 3 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 3 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
Reference works 3
- 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 Wakeford mean, and where does it come from?
- From Wakeford, an unidentified English place-name meaning 'Waca's ford'. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Wakeford?
- A machine transcription gives /wejkfəd/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Wakeford have the most bearers?
- Wakeford is most frequently recorded in the United States.
What do you want to know about Wakeford?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/wakefordThe 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, “Wakeford”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.