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Bradford

in North Carolina

There are 1,142 people with the last name "Bradford" in North Carolina.

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Ranking in North Carolina

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Bradford 960
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  1. is 956th most common Mcconnell
  2. is 957th most common Purvis
  3. is 958th most common Putnam
  4. is 959th most common Royster
  5. is 960th most common Bradford
  6. is 961st most common Cranford
  7. is 962nd most common Dyer
  8. is 963rd most common Goode
  9. is 964th most common Humphries

Most Common First Names for Bradford

William, James, John, Mary, David, Christopher, Robert, Jennifer, Michael, Linda

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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