Last name: HEREFORD
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HEREFORD : This last name is indexed 27,131 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
HEREFORD : English: habitational name from Hertford (Hertfordshire) (in which the t was lost early as in the modern pronunciation Harford) Hereford (Herefordshire) or Harford (Devon Gloucestershire). The Devon and Herefordshire placenames derive from Old English here ‘army’ + ford ‘ford’ while the Gloucestershire and Hertfordshire placenames derive from Old English heorot ‘hart stag’ + ford.
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