The rutherford Surname
rutherford Name Meaning and History
Scottish and northern English: habitational name from a place in
the Scottish Borders near Roxburgh, probably named with an early
British river name of unknown etymology + Old English ford
‘ford’. There is another place of the same name in North Yorkshire,
named with hryðer ‘cattle’ + Old English ford ‘ford’,
but this does not seem to have contributed to the surname.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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