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Radford


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Origin Of The Surname Radford

Meaning Of The Surname Radford

From the Town with the Red Ford

Interesting Facts About Radford

Radford 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 ‘read’ meaning red, combined with ‘ford’, a river crossing, to mean ‘the red ford’.

Radford Statistics

Radford is the number 1388 ranked surname in the United Kingdom. According to our statistics around 7,701 share the surname Radford in the UK.

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