Bedford Family History
Bedford Name Meaning
English: habitational name from the county seat of Bedfordshire or a smaller place of the same name in Lancashire or from Bedforth in Thornhill Yorkshire. Both of the former are named with the Old English personal name Bēda + Old English ford ‘ford’. The name is now very common in Yorkshire as well as Bedfordshire.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022