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- 18,217
- people in the U.S. have this name View all 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.
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- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 18,217
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- North Carolina
- has the most people named Ledford per capita
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