Stanford Family History
Stanford Name Meaning
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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Name Distribution of Stanford Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Stanford families
 138 - 273  47 - 137 |
 1 - 46  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Stanford families
|
257 - 511 86 - 256 |
1 - 85 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Stanford families
|
9 - 16 4 - 8 |
1 - 3 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Stanford Family Origin
Stanford Immigration Information
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Average Life Expectancy for Stanford
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Stanford Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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Stanford Civil War Service Records
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