Ranford (surname)

Ranford is an English-language surname, a variation of the toponymic surname Rainford from the village Rainford, Lancashire.[1][2] Notable people with the surname include:

  1. ^ Lower, M.A. (1860). Patronymica Britannica: A Dictionary of the Family Names of the United Kingdom. J.R. Smith. p. 284. ISBN 978-0-7884-0456-6. Retrieved 26 June 2019.
  2. ^ Hanks, Patrick; Coates, Richard; McClure, Peter (2016). The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland. Oxford University Press. p. 2213. ISBN 978-0-19-252747-9. OCLC 964412220. Retrieved 26 June 2019.