The Lunsford surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 16,962 people carried this name — #2,137 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 17,400 people counted. That is up 1% from 16,736 in 2000.
In the first U.S. census, 1790
33 families named Lunsford, or a close spelling, were counted in 1790.
Each family is counted by its head. About 159 people lived in those households, 4.8 to a family on average. The table counts it together with 3 other spellings. The table lists white heads of families only, in the twelve states whose 1790 records survive; Virginia’s figures come from state lists of 1782–1785.
Families, by state
U.S. Census Bureau, «A Century of Population Growth from the First Census of the United States to the Twelfth, 1790–1900» (Washington, 1909), table 111, p. 251 — public domain · names carried by at least 100 white persons in 1790.
In print
Lunsford in American newspapers,
1916.
Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain.
In print
Lunsford in Australian newspapers,
1890s–1940s.
291 articles name a Mr, Mrs or Miss Lunsford. The most, 176, date from the 1910s. Weighed against how much of each state’s press from the same decades has been digitised, it stands out most in Victoria, at 2.0 times its expected share.
Articles, by state
Trove, National Library of Australia (trove.nla.gov.au) · articles in its digitised newspapers that name a Mr, Mrs or Miss Lunsford.
Who carried it
People named Lunsford,
with a public archive behind them.
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Thomas Lunsford 1611–1656 -
Bascom Lamar Lunsford 1882–1973 · lawyer
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Beverly Lunsford 1945–2019 · actor -
Eleanor Lunsford 1445–1500
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Henry Lunsford 1611–1643 · military officer
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Geroline C. Lunsford 1932–2018 · researcher
Wikidata (CC0) · portraits via Wikimedia Commons, shown cropped, in the public domain or CC0 · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.
In the public record
People named Lunsford,
in the records of 2 countries.
Soldiers, farmers, migrants and neighbours who carried the name and left a trace in public archives. Everyone shown here died long ago or was born more than a century ago.
United States832 records
- U.S. Army enlistment records, World War II 609
- U.S. veterans' cemetery records, burials to 2001 173
- New York State death index (outside NYC), 1957–2001 16
- New York City birth, marriage and death certificates 15
- U.S. alien registration index, 1940–1955 8
- U.S. service members who died in the Vietnam War 6
- U.S. service members who died in the Korean War 4
- Sacramento County historic burials 1
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Example: U.S. war memorial War record James William LunsfordBorn 1950; from Chillicothe, Ohio. U.S. Army, infantryman; killed in action 1969 in Binh Dinh, South Vietnam. Buried at Londonderry Cemetery, Ohio.
U.S. National Archives, Defense Casualty Analysis System (public domain); U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0) -
Example: U.S. registration card, 1942 Military record James E. LunsfordBorn 1921 in Georgia. Enlisted 1940 at Elberton; farm hand from Elbert County. U.S. Army veteran of World War II; died 1997, buried at Elmhurst Cemetery, Elberton, Georgia.
U.S. National Archives, WWII Army Enlistment Records (public domain); U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0) -
Example: U.S. burial record, 1864 Burial record Danny Ray LunsfordU.S. Army veteran. Born 1964, died 1996; buried at Blue Grass Memorial Gardens, Nicholasville, Kentucky.
U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0)
Showing 3 of 832 records for Lunsford in the United States.
Counts: U.S. National Archives, WWII Army Enlistment Records (public domain) · U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0) · New York State Department of Health, Genealogical Research Death Index · NYC Department of Records & Information Services, Historical Vital Records (NYC Open Data) · U.S. National Archives, Flexoline Index Data File (public domain) · U.S. National Archives, Defense Casualty Analysis System (public domain) · Sacramento County, Historic Burials (CC BY 4.0). Example pages, not the records of the people shown: Vietnam Veterans Memorial, photo by U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Michael J. Carden, 2009 (public domain); U.S. Selective Service registration card, 1942 (public domain); Record of death and interment, Camp Nelson, Kentucky, 1864, U.S. National Archives (public domain).
Canada3 records
- City of Calgary cemetery records 2
- Mountain View Cemetery, Vancouver 1
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Example: Canadian cemetery Burial record Dorothy LunsfordBuried in 1946 at Queen's Park Cemetery, Calgary, Alberta.
City of Calgary. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – City of Calgary. -
Example: Canadian cemetery Burial record Horace O. LunsfordDied 1952; buried at Mountain View Cemetery, Vancouver, British Columbia.
City of Vancouver. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Vancouver. -
Example: Canadian cemetery Burial record George LunsfordBuried in 1960 at Queen's Park Cemetery, Calgary, Alberta.
City of Calgary. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – City of Calgary.
Counts: City of Calgary. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – City of Calgary. · City of Vancouver. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Vancouver. Example pages, not the records of the people shown: Fairview Lawn Cemetery, Halifax, photo by Edgar El (CC BY 3.0).
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Lunsford.
- Lundquist 6,853 · U.S. census
- Lundy 14,850 · U.S. census
- Luneau 452 · U.S. census
- Lunetta 598 · U.S. census
- Lung 7,753 · U.S. census
- Lunn 4,650 · U.S. census
- Luo 10,005 · U.S. census
- Luong 14,464 · U.S. census
- Luongo 2,686 · U.S. census
- Lupfer 366 · U.S. census
- Lupi 699 · U.S. census
- Lupin 133 · U.S. census
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