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Bradford

in Arizona

There are 759 people with the last name "Bradford" in Arizona.

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Bradford 669
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  1. is 665th most common Carbajal
  2. is 666th most common Singh
  3. is 667th most common Hull
  4. is 668th most common Arias
  5. is 669th most common Bradford
  6. is 670th most common Rich
  7. is 671st most common Mccabe
  8. is 672nd most common Lindsey
  9. is 673rd most common Wilkins

Most Common First Names for Bradford

David, William, Robert, James, Michael, Mary, John, Lisa, Donna, Jack

Meaning & History

English: habitational name from any of the many places, large and small, called Bradford; in particular the city in West Yorkshire, which originally rose to prosperity as a wool town. There are others in Derbyshire, Devon, Dorset, Greater Manchester, Norfolk, Somerset, and elsewhere. They are all named with Old English brād ‘broad’ + ford ‘ford’.

FOREBEARS This name was brought independently to North American by many different bearers from the 17th century onward. William Bradford (1590–1657), born in Austerfield in South Yorkshire, England, the son of a yeoman farmer, was among the Pilgrim Fathers who emigrated to America on the Mayflower in 1620. He was a signer of the Mayflower Compact and in 1621 he was elected governor of Plymouth colony, being re-elected thirty times.Another William Bradford (1663–1752), printer, came from Barnwell, Leicestershire, England, to Philadelphia, PA, in 1685, subsequently moving to New York, where he set up a printing press and founded a paper mill. His grandson, also called William Bradford (1721–91), was known as ‘the patriot printer’, famous for his Philadelphia newspaper, which among other things denounced the Stamp Act, “which no American can mention witout abhorrence”.

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