The ashford Surname
ashford Name Meaning and History
English: habitational name from any of several places called
Ashford. Those in Essex, Devon, Derbyshire, and Shropshire are named
from Old English æsc ‘ash’ + ford ‘ford’. One in
Surrey is first recorded in 969 as Ecelesford, probably from a
personal name Eccel, a diminutive of Ecca ‘edge (of a
sword)’ + ford. The one in Kent is from æscet ‘clump
of ash trees’ + ford.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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