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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from places called Swinford in Oxfordshire and Leicestershire, from Kingswinford in Staffordshire, or from Old Swinford in Worcestershire, named with Old English swīn ‘swine’, ‘hog’ + ford ‘ford’.

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