Ford Family History
Ford Name Meaning
English: topographic name for someone who lived near a ford,
Middle English, Old English ford, or a habitational name from
one of the many places named with this word, such as Ford in
Northumberland, Shropshire, and West Sussex, or Forde in Dorset.Irish: Anglicized form (quasi-translation) of various Gaelic
names, for example Mac Giolla na Naomh ‘son of Gilla na
Naomh’ (a personal name meaning ‘servant of the saints’), Mac
Conshámha ‘son of Conshnámha’ (a personal name
composed of the elements con ‘dog’ + snámh ‘to
swim’), in all of which the final syllable was wrongly thought to be
áth ‘ford’, and Ó Fuar(th)áin (see
Foran).Jewish: Americanized form of one or more
like-sounding Jewish surnames.Translation of German
Fürth (see Furth).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Ford Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Ford families
 1,040 - 2,077  347 - 1,039 |
 1 - 346  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Ford families
|
2,322 - 4,641 775 - 2,321 |
1 - 774 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Ford families
|
252 - 501 85 - 251 |
1 - 84 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Ford Family Origin
Ford Immigration Information
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Ford Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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