as a Last Name
- 1,371
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Beresford
Meaning & Origins
English: habitational name from a place in the parish of Alstonfield, Staffordshire named Beresford, from Old English beofor ‘beaver’ (or possibly from a byname from this word) + Old English ford ‘ford’. This name also became established in Ireland.
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- Hundreds
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 1,371
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- West Virginia
- has the most people named Beresford per capita
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