as a Last Name
- 50,954
- people in the U.S. have this name Get contact details for people named Stafford
Meaning & Origins
English: habitational name from any of the various places in England so called, which do not all share the same etymology. The county seat of Staffordshire (which is probably the main source of the surname) is named from Old English stæð ‘landing place’ + ford ‘ford’. Examples in Devon seem to have as their first element Old English stān ‘stone’, and one in Sussex is probably named with Old English stēor ‘steer’, ‘bullock’.
| 673rd in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Tens of Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 50,954
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Tennessee
- has the most people named Stafford per capita
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