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stanford Name Meaning and History

English: habitational name from any of various places named Stanford, for example in Bedfordshire, Kent, and Norfolk, or Stanford Dingley in Berkshire, Stanford in the Vale in Oxfordshire, or Stanford le Hope in Essex, etc., all named from Old English stan ‘stone’ + ford ‘ford’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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A unique volume of fascinating facts, statistics and commentary following the stanford family name as far back in history as possible.

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Distribution of stanford Families in the US in 1920
Number of stanford families
 138-273
 47-137		 1-46
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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