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Updated June 9, 2019

Boy name origins & meanings

  • Old English : From the springs

Boy name variations

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’.

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