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gifford Name Meaning and History

  1. habitational name for someone from Giffords Hall in Suffolk. It was originally named in Old English as Gyddingford ‘ford associated with Gydda’. Compare Giddens.
  2. possibly in some cases a variant spelling of Giffard, which may derive from an Old German personal name, Gifard, or from a Middle English nickname from Old French giffard ‘chubby-cheeked’, ‘bloated’ (a pejorative of giffel ‘jaw’, ‘cheek’, of Germanic origin).

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The gifford name in History

A unique volume of fascinating facts, statistics and commentary following the gifford family name as far back in history as possible.

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Distribution of gifford Families in the US in 1920
Number of gifford families
 281-560
 94-280		 1-93
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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