The story
From the unrecorded Old English personal name *Stȳfa + -ing (“belonging to”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Today it means: A village and civil parish in Bedford borough, Bedfordshire, England (OS grid ref SP9853). Full definition →
From the unrecorded Old English personal name *Stȳfa + -ing (“belonging to”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.