Rutherford Family History
Rutherford Name Meaning
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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Name Distribution of Rutherford Families
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United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Rutherford families
 156 - 309  53 - 155 |
 1 - 52  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Rutherford families
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753 - 1,504 252 - 752 |
1 - 251 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Rutherford families
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397 - 791 133 - 396 |
1 - 132 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Rutherford Family Origin
Rutherford Immigration Information
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Rutherford Family Occupations
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