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Bradford

in Washington DC

There are 102 people with the last name "Bradford" in Washington DC.

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Bradford 493
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  1. is 489th most common Hutchinson
  2. is 490th most common Pugh
  3. is 491st most common Singleton
  4. is 492nd most common Atkinson
  5. is 493rd most common Bradford
  6. is 494th most common Dudley
  7. is 495th most common Ruffin
  8. is 496th most common Higgins
  9. is 497th most common Muhammad

Most Common First Names for Bradford

Allen, Dwayne, James, Letoyia, Mary, Roylonda, Vera

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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