Byford

English

Etymology

From Old English byġe (“curve, bend”) + ford (“ford”), "ford at the river bend".

Proper noun

Byford (countable and uncountable, plural Byfords)

1. A village and civil parish in Herefordshire, England (OS grid ref S03942).
2. A habitational surname from Old English.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Byford is the 21057^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 1248 individuals. Byford is most common among White (90.3%) individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Byford”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 264.