Boy name origins & meanings
- Old English : From the springs
How Popular Is The Name Welford
Family name origins & meanings
- English : habitational name from any of the places named Welford, of which there are instances in Berkshire, Gloucestershire, Northamptonshire, and elsewhere. The first is named from Old English welig ‘willow’ + ford ‘ford’; the latter two seem to have the first element well(a) ‘spring’, ‘stream’.