Rufford
English
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Etymology
[edit]From Old English rūh (“rough”) + ford (“ford”); compare the doublet Rufforth.
Proper noun
[edit]Rufford (countable and uncountable, plural Ruffords)
- (uncountable) A placename:
- A village and civil parish in West Lancashire district, Lancashire, England (OS grid ref SD4615). [1]
- A hamlet and civil parish in Newark and Sherwood district, Nottinghamshire, England (OS grid ref SK6465). [2]
- (countable) A habitational surname from Old English.
Statistics
[edit]- According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Rufford is the 51324th most common surname in England, belonging to 53 individuals.
References
[edit]- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Rufford”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.
- Forebears
Categories:
- English terms derived from Old English
- English doublets
- English lemmas
- English proper nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- English countable nouns
- en:Villages in Lancashire, England
- en:Villages in England
- en:Civil parishes of Lancashire, England
- en:Places in Lancashire, England
- en:Places in England
- en:Villages in Nottinghamshire, England
- en:Civil parishes of Nottinghamshire, England
- en:Places in Nottinghamshire, England
- English surnames
- English surnames from Old English