Last Name TWYFORD

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Meaning Local: Of Twyford, parishes in counties Bucks, Leicester, Norfolk, and Hants. Also chapelries in coounties Wilts and Derby. Probbaly the place-name arose from the fact that there was a double ford there. The place formerly called Twyford, Twyfordton, or Twofordton, derives its name from its situation between two rivers, the Exe and the Lowman.
Origin English, Irish

Rank 42,912 (2000 US census) 36,616 (1990 US census)
Count 475 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that
  • 92.42%, or 439 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
  • 3.16%, or 15 total occurrences, as black,
  • undisclosed % as Asian and Pacific Islander,
  • undisclosed % as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
  • 2.32%, or 11 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
  • 1.05%, or 5 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.


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