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milford Name Meaning and History

  1. English (Devon): habitational name from any of numerous places, for example in Derbyshire, Devon, Hampshire, Norfolk, Staffordshire, and Surrey, named in Old English as ‘mill ford’, from mylen ‘mill’ (see Mill) + ford ‘ford’.
  2. Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Maolfhoghmhair ‘descendant of Maolgfhoghmhair’, a personal name meaning ‘chief of harvest’. The Gaelic name was first Anglicized as Mullover, which was later assimilated to Milford.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of milford Families in the US in 1920
Number of milford families
 24-45
 9-23		 1-8
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