The langford Surname
langford Name Meaning and History
English: habitational name from any of the numerous places named in
Old English as ‘long ford’, from lang, long ‘long’ +
ford ‘ford’, except for Langford in Nottinghamshire, which is
named with an Old English personal name Landa or possibly
land, here used in a specific sense such as ‘boundary’ or
‘district’, with the same second element.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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