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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Variant of French Dufort.
  • English : apparently a habitational name, perhaps from Dulford in Broadhembury, Devon, which is named from an unattested Old English word dylfet ‘pit’, ‘quarry’.

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