Buford is a first name typically given to boys, but in rare cases also used as a girls name.
Recently, the name Buford has been given only a handful of times a year and is therefore particularly rare, at least in the US. In recent years, not even one boy in 100,000 has been named Buford. That means that a boy named Buford is exceptional and may not meet another person with the same name his whole life. In the entire USA, approximately 8,091 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Buford. That is 0.00 % of all living Americans.
Buford is not one of the particularly popular names. In fact in some of the last 143 years it has been given so infrequently that it doesn't even show up in our statistics (here a name is only recorded in those years in which it was given to newborns at least five times). This was, for example, most recently the case in 2022, where the name Buford was given at most four times in the entire USA, perhaps even less or not even once. (If your name is Buford and you were born in the USA in 2022, please get in touch with us!) Before that, however, there was a time when the name was significantly more popular - way back in the last century, Buford even made it into the top 1,000 of our SmartGenius statistics of the most popular boys' names: In 1910, it ranked on position 286 - a popularity it has never reached again since then.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Buford was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter B is neither particularly common nor particularly rare as a first letter for boys' names: 4.2% of all common boys' names in the US begin with this letter. The most common first letters of boys' names are J and A, while X and U are the least common initials of boys' names.
With six letters, the name Buford is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
Thus, it follows that if 4.2% of all boys' names start with a B, this initial letter occurs about as often as all 26 letters on average. And maybe interesting to know: Brian is the boys’ name starting with B, which is the most common of all.
If your name is Buford and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Buford, you can simply say:
Butterfly
Unicorn
Fox
Orange
Rocket
Dinosaur
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Buford
Buford
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
B
U
F
O
R
D
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
B
U
F
O
R
D
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Buford sounds like this:
