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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from any of various places named Kingsford, for example in Essex, Devon, Warwickshire, and Worcestershire. The name ostensibly means ‘the king’s ford’, but the one in Worcestershire is named as Cēningaford ‘ford of Cēna’s people’.

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