Richmond surname meaning

Richmond is an English habitational surname from Richmond in North Yorkshire. The Yorkshire place-name was probably transferred after the Norman Conquest from French places named with Old French riche, “mighty” or “strong,” plus munt/mont, “mountain” or “hill.” Richmond in southwest London received its name only under Henry VII and is unlikely to be the surname’s source. DAFN notes that Richmond can occasionally be Richman with an excrescent -d, and that the two names were sometimes confused. Place is high confidence for the Yorkshire habitational explanation that surname dictionaries put first.