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rutherford Name Meaning and History

Scottish and northern English: habitational name from a place in the Scottish Borders near Roxburgh, probably named with an early British river name of unknown etymology + Old English ford ‘ford’. There is another place of the same name in North Yorkshire, named with hryðer ‘cattle’ + Old English ford ‘ford’, but this does not seem to have contributed to the surname.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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rutherford Family Facts

Distribution of rutherford Families in the US in 1920
Number of rutherford families
 156-309
 53-155
 1-52
 0
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