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Bradford

in South Carolina

There are 655 people with the last name "Bradford" in South Carolina.

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Ranking in South Carolina

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Bradford 812
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  1. is 808th most common Connor
  2. is 809th most common Snow
  3. is 810th most common Stephenson
  4. is 811th most common Talley
  5. is 812th most common Bradford
  6. is 813th most common Dozier
  7. is 814th most common Dantzler
  8. is 815th most common Gilliard
  9. is 816th most common Whitlock

Most Common First Names for Bradford

James, William, Mary, Robert, Elizabeth, Thomas, Barbara, Charles, David, 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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