as a Last Name
- 58,017
- people in the U.S. have this name Get contact details for people named Bradford
Meaning & Origins
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’.
| 573rd in the U.S. for 2011 |
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Quick facts
- Tens of Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 58,017
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- America Samoa
- has the most people named Bradford per capita
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