Meaning and history
Bradford is an English surname derived from a place name meaning “broad ford” in Old English.
20062006: 95 births, rank #1,551
2007: 99 births, rank #1,576
2008: 57 births, rank #2,291
2009: 76 births, rank #1,889
2010: 78 births, rank #1,850
20112011: 73 births, rank #1,905
2012: 81 births, rank #1,818
2013: 64 births, rank #2,090
2014: 77 births, rank #1,884
2015: 63 births, rank #2,169
20162016: 68 births, rank #2,066
2017: 70 births, rank #2,014
2018: 67 births, rank #2,101
2019: 48 births, rank #2,656
2020: 50 births, rank #2,546
20212021: 49 births, rank #2,623
2022: 42 births, rank #2,962
2023: 49 births, rank #2,660
2024: 42 births, rank #2,958
20252025: 32 births, rank #3,513
Bradford moved from #835 to #956 for boys between 1998 and 1999. Its highest annual birth count came in 1953, with 779 births.