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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from Somerford in Cheshire, Somerford Keynes in Gloucestershire, or Great and Little Somerford in Wiltshire, named with Old English sumor ‘summer’ + ford ‘ford’, i.e. a place where a river could be forded in the summer.

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