Frequency: (239)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
French: assimilated form of Belfort, a habitational name from any of various places so named, from Old French bel ‘beautiful’ + fort ‘fort’, ‘fortified castle’.
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