Bradbury

At the 2020 census, 7,854 Americans bore the surname Bradbury — 4,364th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 38,100.

By the numbers

People: 7,854
Rank: 4,364th
How common: 1 in 38,100
Per 100,000: 2.6

Where the name comes from

Origin Old English

From Old English brād (“broad”) + byriġ, the dative case of burg (“fortified place”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Bradbury described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 90.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.7%
Hispanic or Latino 3.2%
Black, not Hispanic 1.5%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Bradbury

Ray Bradbury (1920–2012)American author and screenwriter
Steven Bradbury (born 1973)Australian short-track speed skater
Norris Bradbury (1909–1997)American physicist
Robert N. Bradbury (1886–1949)American film director

People named Bradbury with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Bradbury

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.