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Bradford

in Connecticut

There are 220 people with the last name "Bradford" in Connecticut.

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Ranking in Connecticut

NameRank
Bradford 1,687
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  1. is 1,683rd most common Fredericks
  2. is 1,684th most common Labrecque
  3. is 1,685th most common Mccauley
  4. is 1,686th most common Omalley
  5. is 1,687th most common Bradford
  6. is 1,688th most common Desousa
  7. is 1,689th most common Dombrowski
  8. is 1,690th most common Dooley
  9. is 1,691st most common Farmer

Most Common First Names for Bradford

William, David, Irma, Paul, Charles, Edward, Galen, James, John

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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