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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from any of various places, such as Hanford in Staffordshire and Handforth in Cheshire, named from Old English hān ‘stone’ (used as a marker) or hana ‘cock’, ‘male bird’, perhaps used as a byname, + Old English ford ‘ford’.

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