Bradshaw

40,813 people in the United States were counted with the surname Bradshaw in the 2020 census, making it the 828th most common in the country. That is about one person in 7,324.

By the numbers

People: 40,813
Rank: 828th
How common: 1 in 7,324
Per 100,000: 13.7

Where the name comes from

Origin Old English

From Old English brād + sceaga (“thicket”), equivalent.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 74.9%
Black, not Hispanic 15.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.5%
Hispanic or Latino 3.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Bradshaw

Terry Bradshaw (born 1948)American football player and sports analyst
Holly Bradshaw (born 1991)British pole vaulter
Tom Bradshaw (born 1992)association football player
Peter Bradshaw (born 1962)British writer and film critic
Benjamin Bradshaw (1879–1960)Olympic wrestler
Ben Bradshaw (born 1960)British politician
Sufe Bradshaw (born 1979)American actress
John Bradshaw (1602–1659)English judge

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

Surnames like Bradshaw

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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.