as a Last Name
- 20,923
- people in the U.S. have this name Get contact details for people named Ledford
Meaning & Origins
English: habitational name, probably from either of two places called Lydford, in Devon and Somerset. The first is named with the river name Lyd (from Old English hlȳde ‘noisy stream’) + Old English ford, i.e. ‘ford over the Lyd river’.Lydford in Somerset was named ‘ford over the noisy stream’, from Old English hlȳde + ford.
| 1,723rd in the U.S. for 2011 |
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Quick facts
- Tens of Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 20,923
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- North Carolina
- has the most people named Ledford per capita
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