Bradley

At the 2020 census, 130,526 Americans bore the surname Bradley — 218th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 2,290.

By the numbers

People: 130,526
Rank: 218th
How common: 1 in 2,290
Per 100,000: 43.7

Where the name comes from

Origin Old English

Ultimately from Old English brād (“broad”) + lēah (“woodland”). Equivalent.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 66.2%
Black, not Hispanic 24.6%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.5%
Hispanic or Latino 3.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Bradley

Omar Bradley (1893–1981)United States Army general
James Bradley (1693–1762)English astronomer; Astronomer Royal
Michael Bradley (born 1987)American soccer player and coach
Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930–1999)American novelist and editor
John Bradley (born 1988)English actor
F. H. Bradley (1846–1924)British philosopher
Ed Bradley (1941–2006)American journalist
Conor Bradley (born 2003)Northern Irish association football player

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

Surnames like Bradley

Also a first name

Bradley has been given to 314,957 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1980. 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.