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Burford


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Origin Of The Surname Burford

Meaning Of The Surname Burford

From the Town with the Ford and the Hill

Interesting Facts About Burford

Burford 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 ‘beorg’ meaning hill and ‘ford’ meaning a crossing in a river. Places with this name would have originally had both a ford and a hill nearby.

Burford Statistics

Burford is the number 1254 ranked surname in the United Kingdom. According to our statistics around 8,084 share the surname Burford in the UK.

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