The Taliaferro surname

In the 2010 U.S. Census, 3,959 people carried this name — #8,364 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 74,600 people counted. That is up 6% from 3,725 in 2000.

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Where the name comes from

The origin of the Taliaferro surname

A surname, derived from Italian.

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Taliaferro» (English), by Wiktionary contributors · licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) · excerpt, lightly adapted.

In print

Taliaferro in American newspapers,
1868–1921.

Newspaper page from The Bridgeport Times And Evening Farmer carrying the name Taliaferro
The Bridgeport Times And Evening Farmer 1921-01-13
Newspaper page from New Orleans Republican carrying the name Taliaferro
New Orleans Republican 1868-04-04
Newspaper page from The San Francisco Call carrying the name Taliaferro
The San Francisco Call 1906-03-07

Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain.

In print

Taliaferro in Australian newspapers,
1850s–1930s.

556 articles name a Mr, Mrs or Miss Taliaferro. The most, 298, date from the 1930s. Weighed against how much of each state’s press from the same decades has been digitised, it stands out most in Victoria, at 2.1 times its expected share.

Articles, by state

Victoria 227
New South Wales 154
Queensland 86
South Australia 49
Western Australia 27
Tasmania 9
ACT (Canberra) 1
Northern Territory 1

Trove, National Library of Australia (trove.nla.gov.au) · articles in its digitised newspapers that name a Mr, Mrs or Miss Taliaferro.

Who carried it

People named Taliaferro,
with a public archive behind them.

  • Bartolomeo Taliaferro 1530–1601
  • Francis Taliaferro 1589–1647
  • Robert Taliaferro, 'the Immigrant' 1626–1687
  • John Taliaferro 1656–1720
  • Richard Taliaferro 1660–1712
  • Mary Taliaferro 1686–

Wikidata (CC0) · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.

In the public record

People named Taliaferro,
in the records of the United States.

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 States332 records

332 records of the Taliaferro name in the United States
  • U.S. Army enlistment records, World War II 194
  • U.S. veterans' cemetery records, burials to 2001 75
  • New York City birth, marriage and death certificates 34
  • New York State death index (outside NYC), 1957–2001 17
  • U.S. alien registration index, 1940–1955 5
  • Passenger arrivals in the United States, 1820–1912 3
  • U.S. service members who died in the Korean War 2
  • U.S. service members who died in the Vietnam War 2
  1. Names engraved on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Washington, D.C.
    Example: U.S. war memorial
    War record Napoleon Enoch Taliaferro

    Born 1949; from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. U.S. Marine Corps, rifleman; died in an accident 1968 in Quang Tin, South Vietnam. Buried at Beverly National Cemetery, New Jersey.

    U.S. National Archives, Defense Casualty Analysis System (public domain); U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0)
  2. A United States Selective Service registration card, 1942
    Example: U.S. registration card, 1942
    Military record Lewis Taliaferro

    Born 1922 in Mississippi. Enlisted 1942 at Camp Forrest, Tennessee; gardener. U.S. Army veteran of World War II; died 2001, buried at West Tennessee Veterans Cemetery, Memphis, Tennessee.

    U.S. National Archives, WWII Army Enlistment Records (public domain); U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0)
  3. A passenger manifest of the S.S. St. Paul, arriving at New York in 1903
    Example: passenger manifest, 1903
    Passenger record Domenico Taliaferro

    Arrived at New York in 1900 aboard the Spartan Prince from Naples, aged 27; laborer. From Maddaloni, Caserta, Italy; bound for New York.

    U.S. National Archives, Castle Garden Immigration Center Collection, Ship Passenger Records (unrestricted)

Showing 3 of 332 records for Taliaferro in the United States.

Counts: U.S. National Archives, WWII Army Enlistment Records (public domain) · U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0) · NYC Department of Records & Information Services, Historical Vital Records (NYC Open Data) · New York State Department of Health, Genealogical Research Death Index · U.S. National Archives, Flexoline Index Data File (public domain) · U.S. National Archives, Castle Garden Immigration Center Collection, Ship Passenger Records (unrestricted) · U.S. National Archives, Defense Casualty Analysis System (public domain). 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); Passenger manifest of the S.S. St. Paul, New York, 1903 (public domain).

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