as a Last Name
- 1,996
- people in the U.S. have this name Get contact details for people named Hanford
Meaning & Origins
English: habitational name from any of various places, such as Hanford in Staffordshire and Handforth in Cheshire, named from Old English hān ‘stone’ (used as a marker) or hana ‘cock’, ‘male bird’, perhaps used as a byname, + Old English ford ‘ford’.
| 14,868th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Hundreds
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 1,996
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Washington
- has the most people named Hanford per capita
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