Beauford
Beauford was last recorded in 2020, when 6 babies were given it; 1,026 Americans have been recorded with it between 1905 and 2020 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Beauford by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Beauford?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #10,759, in 2020; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
38 babies in 1920, the peak
Beauford peaked in 1920, when 38 babies were given it (33 boys, #1,253 among boys’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 6 | #10,759 | 3.5 |
| 1982 | 5 | #6,460 | 2.8 |
| 1981 | 6 | #5,549 | 3.3 |
| 1979 | 5 | #6,136 | 2.9 |
| 1975 | 8 | #3,977 | 5.1 |
| 1973 | 7 | #4,092 | 4.5 |
| 1969 | 6 | #3,980 | 3.4 |
| 1968 | 5 | #4,184 | 2.9 |
| 1967 | 5 | #4,010 | 2.9 |
| 1966 | 7 | #3,268 | 3.9 |
Every recorded year (64)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1964 | 7 | #3,308 | 3.5 |
| 1963 | 8 | #3,067 | 3.9 |
| 1962 | 8 | #3,063 | 3.9 |
| 1961 | 7 | #3,378 | 3.3 |
| 1960 | 13 | #2,324 | 6.1 |
| 1959 | 12 | #2,427 | 5.6 |
| 1958 | 7 | #3,290 | 3.3 |
| 1957 | 13 | #2,282 | 6.0 |
| 1955 | 6 | #3,534 | 2.9 |
| 1954 | 7 | #3,193 | 3.4 |
| 1953 | 10 | #2,545 | 5.1 |
| 1952 | 14 | #2,082 | 7.2 |
| 1951 | 16 | #1,911 | 8.5 |
| 1950 | 14 | #2,033 | 7.8 |
| 1949 | 19 | #1,709 | 10.7 |
| 1948 | 12 | #2,227 | 6.8 |
| 1947 | 11 | #2,373 | 6.0 |
| 1946 | 17 | #1,765 | 10.5 |
| 1945 | 10 | #2,257 | 7.4 |
| 1944 | 12 | #2,084 | 8.8 |
| 1943 | 15 | #1,916 | 10.5 |
| 1942 | 13 | #2,047 | 9.4 |
| 1941 | 12 | #2,092 | 9.8 |
| 1940 | 23 | #1,402 | 19.8 |
| 1939 | 14 | #1,885 | 12.6 |
| 1938 | 21 | #1,477 | 18.9 |
| 1937 | 25 | #1,347 | 23.4 |
| 1936 | 17 | #1,644 | 16.4 |
| 1935 | 18 | #1,661 | 17.3 |
| 1934 | 34 | #1,134 | 32.9 |
| 1933 | 22 | #1,458 | 22.2 |
| 1932 | 27 | #1,327 | 25.9 |
| 1931 | 22 | #1,495 | 21.2 |
| 1930 | 17 | #1,828 | 15.5 |
| 1929 | 26 | #1,415 | 24.2 |
| 1928 | 28 | #1,385 | 25.3 |
| 1927 | 17 | #1,964 | 15.1 |
| 1926 | 26 | #1,434 | 23.4 |
| 1925 | 28 | #1,392 | 25.1 |
| 1924 | 33 | #1,266 | 29.1 |
| 1923 | 31 | #1,301 | 28.3 |
| 1922 | 32 | #1,283 | 29.4 |
| 1921 | 31 | #1,332 | 28.1 |
| 1920 | 33 | #1,253 | 31.0 |
| 1919 | 31 | #1,265 | 31.6 |
| 1918 | 21 | #1,655 | 20.7 |
| 1917 | 25 | #1,399 | 27.0 |
| 1916 | 29 | #1,243 | 32.6 |
| 1915 | 15 | #1,884 | 17.7 |
| 1914 | 13 | #1,786 | 19.9 |
| 1913 | 11 | #1,686 | 21.5 |
| 1912 | 13 | #1,360 | 30.2 |
| 1911 | 5 | #1,762 | 22.1 |
| 1905 | 5 | #1,247 | 37.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Beauford a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Beauford has been given almost only to boys: 10 girls in 64 years of records.
Girls and boys named Beauford: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Beauford, and how old are they?
An estimated 239 Americans named Beauford and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (23% of everyone recorded); the median is 73 years old and half are between 63 and 80. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 312 people named Beauford (3 women and girls, 309 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 316 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% below that prediction.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 1,245 babies since 1880, Beauford is the most given (82% of them).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Beauford
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Beauford and names like it
- Compare Beauford and BeufordBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sBeauford peaked in 1920.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Beauford since 1910.
- The top names of 1920The year the most babies were named Beauford.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Beauford alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with BMost given first.