as a Last Name
- 19,750
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Stanford
Meaning & Origins
English: habitational name from any of various places named Stanford, for example in Bedfordshire, Kent, and Norfolk, or Stanford Dingley in Berkshire, Stanford in the Vale in Oxfordshire, or Stanford le Hope in Essex, etc., all named from Old English stān ‘stone’ + ford ‘ford’.
| 1,565th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 19,750
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Mississippi
- has the most people named Stanford per capita
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