as a Last Name
- 18,727
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Gifford
Meaning & Origins
English: 1. habitational name for someone from Giffords Hall in Suffolk. It was originally named in Old English as Gyddingford ‘ford associated with Gydda’. Compare Giddens. 2. possibly in some cases a variant spelling of Giffard, which may derive from an Old German personal name, Gifard, or from a Middle English nickname from Old French giffard ‘chubby-cheeked’, ‘bloated’ (a pejorative of giffel ‘jaw’, ‘cheek’, of Germanic origin).
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- of people in the U.S have this name
- 18,727
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
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