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Alford
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Origin Of The Surname Alford
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Meaning Of The Surname Alford
From the Town by the Ford and the Alder Trees
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Interesting
Facts About
Alford
Alford 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 is said to mean ‘the ford by the alders’ and would have been given to a town built near to a ford surrounded by alder trees. |
Alford Statistics
Alford is the number 1724 ranked surname in the United Kingdom.
According to our statistics around 6,224 share the surname Alford in the UK.
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