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’.