Bickford
surname · Latin script
Meaning: person from Bickford, Devon, meaning ‘Bicca’s ford’
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈbɪkfɝd/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Bickford is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- AUAustralia
- GBUnited Kingdom
- CACanada
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
person from Bickford, Devon, meaning ‘Bicca’s ford’.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
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Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Bickford is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, from Bickford (St); Bickford Town in Devon; first attested Henry Bickford, Richard Bicford 1642 PrD
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In English, from the OE personal name Bicca (cf. Beckett 2) + OE ford Ford. There is one such place in Staffs., but the sur¬ name is more common in Devon, where it is derived from Bickford Town in Plympton St Mary parish.
as a nameA dictionary of surnames
In English, Henry Bickford, Richard Bicford 1642 PrD. From Bickford (St), Bickford Town in 285 Plympton St Mary (D), or Beckford Fm in Membury (D), Bykeford 1408.
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In French, a safety-fuse used in mining
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Andrew Bickfordb. 1844INRoyal Navy admiral (1844–1927)
- Charles Bickfordb. 1891USAmerican actor (1891–1967)
- Ada Norrisb. 1901AUnot in their usual nameAustralian political activist (1901–1989)
- James Bickfordb. 1912USbobsledder (1912–1989)
- Walter Bickfordb. 1942USAmerican politician
- Bruce Bickfordb. 1947USAmerican animator (1947-2019)
- Bruce Bickfordb. 1957USAmerican long-distance runner
- Phil Bickfordb. 1995USAmerican baseball player
- Laura Bickfordb. 2000USAmerican film producer
- Michael Bickfordb. 2000USAmerican businessman, polo player
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 15 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 7.8K | #4,234 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 7.7K | #4,590 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 7.3K | #4,689 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 8 | #60,668 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 5 | #55,079 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 2 | #138,802 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #309,919 |
| KN St. Kitts & Nevis | St Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026 | 2026 | 1 | #181 |
| GB United Kingdom | A Dictionary of Surnames (Hanks & Hodges, 1988) | — | — | — |
| GB United Kingdom | A Dictionary of English Surnames (Reaney & Wilson, 1991) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Bickford mean, and where does it come from?
- person from Bickford, Devon, meaning ‘Bicca’s ford’. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Bickford?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈbɪkfɝd/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Bickford have the most bearers?
- Bickford is most frequently recorded in the United States.
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About this data
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Bickford”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.