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The crawford Surname

crawford Name Meaning and History

  1. Scottish, English, and northern Irish: habitational name from any of the various places, for example in Lanarkshire (Scotland) and Dorset and Lancashire (England) called Crawford, named in Old English with crawe ‘crow’ + ford ‘ford’.
  2. English: variant of Crowfoot (see Crofoot).

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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crawford Family Facts

Distribution of crawford Families in the US in 1920
Number of crawford families
 939-1876
 314-938		 1-313
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Compiled by Ancestry.co.uk from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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