Updated June 9, 2019

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Boy name origins & meanings

  • Old English : Broad meadow

Boy name variations

Bradley

Bradley

- 10% this year
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Brad

Brad

- 11% this year
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Brady

Brady

- 6% this year
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Braid

Braid

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Braddlea

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Braddlee

Braddlee

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Braddleigh

Braddleigh

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Braddli

Braddli

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Braddlie

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Braddly

Braddly

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Bradleigh

Bradleigh

- 56% this year
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Bradlie

Bradlie

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Braddley

Braddley

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Bradlay

Bradlay

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How Popular Is The Name Bradford

Family name origins & meanings

  • 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’.
  • This name was brought independently to North American by many different bearers from the 17th century onward. William Bradford (1590–1657), born in Austerfield in South Yorkshire, England, the son of a yeoman farmer, was among the Pilgrim Fathers who emigrated to America on the Mayflower in 1620. He was a signer of the Mayflower Compact and in 1621 he was elected governor of Plymouth colony, being re-elected thirty times.