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Branford

 

Frequency: (119)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)

English: habitational name from Bramford in Suffolk or Brampford Speke in Devon. Both places are named with Old English brōm ‘broom’ + ford ‘ford’.

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