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Woodford


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Origin Of The Surname Woodford

Meaning Of The Surname Woodford

From the Town by the Ford in the Woods

Interesting Facts About Woodford

Woodford is a locational surname coming from any of the places so-called or similarly spelled across Britain. Locational surnames were traditionally given to someone who had moved away to a new area, whereby they were assigned the name of their original home as a surname to differentiate them from the other townspeople. The place name itself comes from the Old English ‘wudu’ meaning woods, combined with ford to mean ‘the ford in the woods’.

Woodford Statistics

Woodford is the number 1381 ranked surname in the United Kingdom. According to our statistics around 7,717 share the surname Woodford in the UK.

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