Given name & surname
Telford
“one who works with iron”
Telford is used as a given name and a surname. One French interpretation is “one who works with iron.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One French interpretation is “one who works with iron.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is French.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1903. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Telford through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 348
- 348 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1937
- 14 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 1975. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 14 in 1937. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 201 as a first name in 2020; 3,259 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Telford’s family of names
Telford has a related form in Taillefer. Telford has a related form in Telek. Telford has a related form in Telfer.
The ring: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 12
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
- Talfordvariant · English
- Telfortvariant · English
- Telekvariant
- Taillefervariant
- Tellfordevariant
- Tellfordvariant
- Tellfourvariant
- Tellfervariant
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People named Telford
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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