Bradford

in Nebraska

There are 97 people with the last name "Bradford" in Nebraska.

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Ranking in Nebraska

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Bradford 2,007
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  1. is 2,003rd most common Thornburg
  2. is 2,004th most common Ulmer
  3. is 2,005th most common Ames
  4. is 2,006th most common Barlow
  5. is 2,007th most common Bradford
  6. is 2,008th most common Connealy
  7. is 2,009th most common Doll
  8. is 2,010th most common Knaub
  9. is 2,011th most common Knudson

Most Common First Names for Bradford

James, Marie, Robert, Cathy, Dorothy, Eula, Fayetta, Helen, Jerry, Kathy



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 (15901657), 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 (16631752), 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 (172191), 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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