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Updated June 9, 2019

Boy name origins & meanings

  • English : Ford by the willows
  • Teutonic : Valiant protector

How Popular Is The Name Wilford

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from either of two places called Wilford, in Nottinghamshire and Suffolk, both probably named with an Old English wilig ‘willow tree’ + Old English ford ‘ford’.
  • Dutch : see Williford.

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