Elford Family History
Elford Name Meaning
English: habitational name from a place so named, from the Old English personal name Ella (see Ellington) + ford ‘ford’, or from Old English alor, elre ‘alder tree’ + ford. There is a place of this name in Staffordshire and another in Northumbria, but the surname now occurs chiefly in Devon.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press