Romford

English

Alternative forms

• (surname): Rumfitt, Rumford

Etymology

From Old English rūm (“broad, spacious”) + ford (“ford”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɹɒmfəd/

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Proper noun

Romford (countable and uncountable, plural Romfords)

1. A large town in the borough of Havering, Greater London; historically a market town in Essex (OS grid ref TQ5188).
2. A habitational surname from Old English.

Statistics

• According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Romford is the 86519^th most common surname in England, belonging to 24 individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Romford”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.

Anagrams

• Morford