Milford Family History
Milford Name Meaning
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’.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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Name Distribution of Milford Families
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United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Milford families
 24 - 45  9 - 23 |
 1 - 8  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Milford families
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164 - 325 55 - 163 |
1 - 54 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Milford families
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3 - 2 2 - 2 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Milford Family Origin
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Milford Family Occupations
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