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The stafford Surname

stafford Name Meaning and History

English: habitational name from any of the various places in England so called, which do not all share the same etymology. The county seat of Staffordshire (which is probably the main source of the surname) is named from Old English stæð ‘landing place’ + ford ‘ford’. Examples in Devon seem to have as their first element Old English stan ‘stone’, and one in Sussex is probably named with Old English steor ‘steer’, ‘bullock’.

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

Distribution of stafford Families in the US in 1920
Number of stafford families
 297-592
 100-296		 1-99
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Compiled by Ancestry.co.uk from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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