The crawford Surname
crawford Name Meaning and History
- Scottish, English, and northern Irish: habitational name from any of the various places, for example in Lanarkshire (Scotland) and Dorset and Lancashire (England) called Crawford, named in Old English with crawe ‘crow’ + ford ‘ford’.
- English: variant of Crowfoot (see Crofoot).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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