Stockford Family History
Stockford Name Meaning
English (Oxfordshire): in northern England and the North Midlands usually a variant of Stockport a habitational name from Stockport (Cheshire) from Old English stoc ‘place secondary settlement’ + port ‘town market’; elsewhere it may have a different origin such as Stokeford in East Stoke (Dorset) which takes its name from East Stoke + Old English ford ‘ford’ meaning ‘the ford near (East) Stoke’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022