Stratford
loc · Latin script
Meaning: Person from Stratford, several English places; 'ford across a Roman road'
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 13 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
Stratford is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Canada.
- CACanada
- NZNew Zealand
- USUnited States
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 Stratford, several English places; 'ford across a Roman road'.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Recorded in:
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Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Stratford is also recorded in 3 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 one of the Stratfords; first attested Robert de Stratford 1086 DB (Sf)
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In English, places, for example in Greater London, Beds., Bucks., Northants, Suffolk, Wilts., and Warwicks., so called from OE street (Roman) road (see Street) + ford Ford. Var.: Strafford.
as a nameA dictionary of surnames
In English, The name of various cities, towns and boroughs in the USA, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. See the full list.
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)- Stratford Canningb. 1745Peerage person
- Stratford Canning, 1st Viscount Stratford de Redcliffeb. 1786GBBritish politician (1786-1880)
- Alfred Stratfordb. 1853GBcricketer (1853-1914)
- Cecil Wingfield-Stratfordb. 1853GBEnglish footballer (1853-1939)
- Stratford Johnsb. 1925GBBritish actor (1925–2002)
- John Burtonb. 1927CAnot in their usual nameCanadian politician
- Philip Stratfordb. 1927CACanadian poet
- Stratford Caldecottb. 1953GBBritish author, editor, publisher, and blogger (1953–2014)
- Paul Stratfordb. 1955GBEnglish footballer (born 1955)
- Dan Stratfordb. 1985GBEnglish footballer (born 1985)
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).
Evidence
(measured from records)27 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 3.8K | #2,129 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.7K | #16,509 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.7K | #16,190 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.6K | #16,341 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 20 | #86,390 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 20 | #83,413 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 18 | #44,509 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 5 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 5 | #208,486 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 2 | #186,134 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 2 | #70,513 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 2 | #24,737 |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Stratford mean, and where does it come from?
- Person from Stratford, several English places; 'ford across a Roman road'. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- In which country does Stratford have the most bearers?
- Stratford is most frequently recorded in Canada.
What do you want to know about Stratford?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/stratfordThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
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Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Stratford”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.