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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