First name origin & meaning: Old English: From the cattle ford First name variations: Ruthren, Rutherfurd, Rutherfyrd Last name origin & meaning: 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. This name appears in the following lists:
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