Bradford

51,912 people in the United States were counted with the surname Bradford in the 2020 census, making it the 636th most common in the country. That is about one person in 5,758.

By the numbers

People: 51,912
Rank: 636th
How common: 1 in 5,758
Per 100,000: 17.4

Where the name comes from

Origin Old English

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 62.5%
Black, not Hispanic 28.2%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.8%
Hispanic or Latino 3.4%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Bradford

Jesse Bradford (born 1979)American actor
William Bradford (1590–1657)English Separatist leader in Leiden, Holland and in Plymouth Colony
William Bradford (1755–1795)American judge and second United States Attorney General
Barbara Taylor Bradford (1933–2024)British novelist
Sam Bradford (born 1987)American football player
James Bradford (1928–2013)American weightlifter
Richard Bradford (1934–2016)American actor
Joe Bradford (1901–1980)English footballer

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

Surnames like Bradford

Also a first name

Bradford has been given to 32,114 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1953. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

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.