Buford
About 10,964 American babies have been named Buford since 1880, most of them around 1921. In 2025 it ranked 10,695th. About 2,800 Bufords are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 70.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Buford boys named Buford
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 10,964
- Estimated living today
- 2,800
- Median age today
- 70
- Peak year
- 1921
- Best rank
- 318th
- Rank in 2025
- 10,695th
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 110 / 10,854
How old the living Bufords are
born that year still alive today
Of the 10,964 babies given the name since 1880, about 2,800 are alive — 26 in every hundred. Roughly 20 of them are children and 1,700 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1955 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where Buford is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Buford is most concentrated in Tennessee (8.3×), Alabama (6.0×), Mississippi (5.2×), Kentucky (5.0×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1921
The most popular boys’ names the year Buford peaked:
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Buford against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.