Ashford (surname)
Ashford is an English habitational surname from any of several places called Ashford. Those in Essex, Devon, Derbyshire, and Shropshire are named from Old English æsc ‘ash’ + ford ‘ford’.
One in Surrey is first recorded in 969 as Ecelesford, probably from a personal name Eccel, a diminutive of ecca ‘edge ’ + ford. The one in Kent is from æscet ‘clump of ash trees’ + ford.
Notable people with the surname include:
- Agnes Ashford, evangelist
- Alan Ashford, cricketer
- Annaleigh Ashford, actress
- Bailey Ashford, tropical medicine physician
- Brad Ashford, congressman
- Christopher Ashford, wrestler
- Daisy Ashford, writer
- Daniel F. Ashford, politician
- David Ashford, politician
- Emmett Ashford, Major League Baseball umpire
- Evelyn Ashford, athlete
- Frederick Ashford, athlete
- John Ashford, theatre director
- Leigh Ashford
- Lindsay Ashford, writer
- Mary Ashford, murder victim
- Matthew Ashford, actor
- Nellie Ashford, American visual artist
- Nickolas Ashford, singer
- Rob Ashford, director
- Robert Ashford, law professor
- Rosalind Ashford, singer
- Ryan Ashford, footballer
- Thomas Ashford, military and post man
- Tucker Ashford, baseball player
- Volney Ashford, football coach
- William Ashford, painter
Fictional characters
- Alfred, Alexia and Veronica Ashford in the video game Resident Evil Code: Veronica:
- Angela Ashford, a character in the Resident Evil movie series
- Milly Ashford, a fictional character in Sunrise's anime Code Geass
