Gifford Family History
Gifford Name Meaning
habitational name for someone from Giffords Hall in
Suffolk. It was originally named in Old English as Gyddingford
‘ford associated with Gydda’. Compare Giddens.possibly in some cases a variant spelling of Giffard, which
may derive from an Old German personal name, Gifard, or from a
Middle English nickname from Old French giffard
‘chubby-cheeked’, ‘bloated’ (a pejorative of giffel ‘jaw’,
‘cheek’, of Germanic origin).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Gifford
Name Distribution of Gifford Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Gifford families
 281 - 560  94 - 280 |
 1 - 93  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Gifford families
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187 - 371 63 - 186 |
1 - 62 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Gifford families
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70 - 138 24 - 69 |
1 - 23 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Gifford Family Origin
Gifford Immigration Information
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Average Life Expectancy for Gifford
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Gifford Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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