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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : variant of Montfort.
  • English : habitational name from Montford in Shropshire, named in Old English as Maneford, from (ge)mǣne or mann (genitive plural -a) ‘communal’, ‘of the community’ + ford ‘ford’; or from Mundford in Norfolk, named in Old English as ‘Munda’s ford’, from Munda, an unattested Old English personal name, + ford ‘ford’.

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