# Rochford

> English word · Proper noun · frequency rank #63,208

## Definitions
1. A surname.
2. A town and civil parish in Rochford district, in southeastern Essex, England (OS grid ref TQ8790).
3. A local government district in Essex, named after the town of Rochford.
4. A civil parish and two hamlets, Lower Rochford and Upper Rochford, in Malvern Hills district, Worcestershire, England (OS grid refs SO6368/6367).
5. A small settlement and locality in the Shire of Macedon Ranges, Victoria, Australia.
6. An unincorporated community in Pennington County, South Dakota, United States.

## Etymology
From Middle English Rochford, from two sources in Old English, both of which eventually converged into the modern form:
# 'The rook ford' or 'Rook's ford', from Old English hrōc (“rook”), genitive plural hrōca + ford, or else from Old English personal name Hrōc, genitive singular Hrōces + ford (respectively).
# 'Ford of the hunting dogs', from Old English ræċċ (“hunting dog”), genitive singular ræċċes (the vowel later assimilated to that of Old French roche (“rock, cliff”)) + ford.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/rochford