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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English (chiefly Midlands) : habitational name from any of various places called Halford. Most, for example those in Warwickshire and Shropshire, are named from Old English halh ‘nook’, ‘recess’ + ford ‘ford’.

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