Alford
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Frequency: (10195)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
English and Scottish: habitational name from any of various places called Alford, for example in Somerset and Aberdeenshire. The first is named with the Old English female personal name Ealdgȳð + ford ‘ford’. See also Alvord.
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