Trafford Surname

105,223rd
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 4,452 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
England
Highest density in:
Isle of Man

Trafford Surname Definition:

This surname is derived from a geographical locality. 'of Trafford,' a property in the suburbs of Manchester, whence the baronetage of 'de Trafford' gets its title.

Stephen de Trafford, Lancashire, 20 Edward I: Placita de Quo Warranto, temp.

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Trafford Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
England2,1061:26,4573,613
United States9021:401,83935,135
Canada6771:54,4256,477
Australia3001:89,98610,337
New Zealand2401:18,8683,310
Scotland411:130,5818,115
South Africa311:1,747,66884,236
Wales291:106,7088,358
Singapore211:262,27211,611
Slovakia121:444,70454,815
Isle of Man101:8,5821,778
Spain91:5,194,67182,436
Qatar91:262,00030,726
Thailand81:8,829,793476,604
Switzerland71:1,173,27469,697
Germany61:13,417,576340,600
United Arab Emirates61:1,527,04651,993
Brazil51:42,814,866547,158
Chile41:4,404,11844,633
Malta41:107,5681,849
Russia41:36,030,764577,589
France31:22,140,907385,998
Cambodia21:7,743,57311,959
Italy21:30,578,344160,757
India21:383,532,6911,645,216
Israel11:8,557,634182,558
Northern Ireland11:1,845,03620,648
Bahamas11:391,7512,737
Zimbabwe11:15,438,240133,260
Barbados11:287,4482,772
Jersey11:99,2026,620
Sweden11:9,846,757347,448
Kenya11:46,179,900103,372
South Korea11:51,240,2568,015
Malaysia11:29,494,225409,885
Netherlands11:16,887,176156,465
Ireland11:4,708,93929,543
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Ireland71:632,83819,259
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
England1,1831:20,6052,919
Isle of Man151:3,618395
Wales11:1,568,41619,290
Scotland11:3,743,21632,299
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States2511:200,07417,416

Trafford (168) may also be a first name.

Trafford Surname Meaning

From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history

This surname is derived from a geographical locality. 'of Trafford,' a property in the suburbs of Manchester, whence the baronetage of 'de Trafford' gets its title.

Stephen de Trafford, Lancashire, 20 Edward I: Placita de Quo Warranto, temp. Edward I-III.

Henry de Trafford, Lancashire, ibid.

1572. George Trafford, of Manchester, gentleman: Wills at Chester.

1591. Henry Trafford, rector of Wilmslow: ibid.

1580. William Trafforde, Cheshire: Register of the University of Oxford.

1610. John Trafforde, Cheshire: ibid.

A Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames (1896) by Charles Wareing Endell Bardsley

(English) belonging to Trafford (Manchester), 13th-i4th cent. Trafford = the Tree-Ford (i.e. a ford whose passage was facilitated by tree-stumps or timber-piles) [Old English treów, a tree, timber (= Dano-Norwegian tree, Swedish trä) + ford]

Surnames of the United Kingdom (1912) by Henry Harrison

An estate in the parish of Eccles, co. Lancaster, where the ancestors of the family are said to have been established before the Norman Conquest. The pedigree in Baines's Lancashire deduces them from Ralph de Trafford, who died about 1050. This Ralph may have been a real personage, and an ancestor of the Traffords, but he was certainly no Be Trafford before the Conquest. Mr. Shirley remarks that "on the whole, it may be assumed that the antiquity of this family is exaggerated, though the name no doubt was derived from the locality at an early period." Noble and Gentle Men.

Patronymica Britannica (1860) by Mark Antony Lower

Or DeVilliers, descended from Paganus de Villars, of Normandy, Baron of Warrington, who t. Henry I. enfeoffed Alan de Villiers, his son, in Trafford, which lordship was held by Robert do Villers in the 13th cent. (Testa de Neville). In the same century Henry de Trafford, evidently a younger son, held lands in thanage and from the family of De Charlton, Lancashire (Ibid.): hence the Baronets Trafford, for whom an Anglo-Saxon descent has been imagined. See Villiers.

The Norman People (1874)

A location name in Lancashire.

British Family Names: Their Origin and Meaning (1903) by Henry Barber

Trafford Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Trafford Come From? nationality or country of origin

The last name Trafford (Russian: Траффорд) has its highest incidence in England. It may be found in the variant forms:. Click here for other potential spellings of Trafford.

How Common Is The Last Name Trafford? popularity and diffusion

Trafford is the 105,223rd most frequent last name worldwide. It is borne by approximately 1 in 1,636,915 people. Trafford is mostly found in Europe, where 50 percent of Trafford live; 49 percent live in Northern Europe and 49 percent live in British Isles. Trafford is also the 705,855th most commonly occurring first name worldwide It is held by 168 people.

This surname is most widely held in England, where it is held by 2,106 people, or 1 in 26,457. In England it is mostly concentrated in: Lancashire, where 13 percent are found, Oxfordshire, where 8 percent are found and Greater London, where 7 percent are found. Aside from England this surname is found in 36 countries. It is also found in The United States, where 20 percent are found and Canada, where 15 percent are found.

Trafford Family Population Trend historical fluctuation

The occurrence of Trafford has changed through the years. In England the number of people bearing the Trafford surname grew 178 percent between 1881 and 2014; in The United States it grew 359 percent between 1880 and 2014; in Scotland it grew 4,100 percent between 1881 and 2014; in Wales it grew 2,900 percent between 1881 and 2014 and in Ireland it declined 86 percent between 1901 and 2014.

Trafford Last Name Statistics demography

The religious devotion of those carrying the Trafford surname is chiefly Presbyterian (57%) in Ireland.

In The United States those bearing the Trafford surname are 2.42% more likely to be registered with the Democratic Party than The US average, with 50.81% registered to vote for the political party.

The amount Trafford earn in different countries varies markedly. In South Africa they earn 38.21% more than the national average, earning R 328,440 per year; in United States they earn 9.62% more than the national average, earning $47,299 USD per year and in Canada they earn 2.93% more than the national average, earning $51,138 CAD per year.

Phonetically Similar Names

Trafford Name Transliterations

TransliterationICU LatinPercentage of Incidence
Trafford in the Russian language
Траффордtrafford-

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