Rachford
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Rachford
Frequency: (146)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
English: 1. variant of Rochford. 2. variant of Rackford, a habitational name from Rackenford in Devon, recorded in Domesday Book as Racheneforda, which Mills interprets as ‘ford suitable for riding, by a stretch of river’.
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