How common is the surname Bradshaw?

42,465 people in the United States had the surname Bradshaw in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 7,271 Americans. It ranked 818th of 162,253 surnames.

Who is the most famous person named Bradshaw?

Terry Bradshaw, American football player and sports analyst (born 1948), followed by Tom Bradshaw.

Where is the surname Bradshaw most common?

Wikidata records people named Bradshaw in the United States, the United Kingdom and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

Is the surname Bradshaw getting more or less common?

More common. 40,794 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 42,465 in 2010, up 4.1%.

The surname Bradshaw

An English place surname, carried by 42,465 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex B632

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Bradshaw is more common than 99.5% of them.

Origin

English origin

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

Bradshaw is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

One of 1,446 English surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 42,465 people named Bradshaw in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 7,271 Americans. That is up 4.1% since 2000, when the Census counted 40,794.

#818

rank among US surnames

42,465

people in 2010

per 100,000 Americans

+4.1%

change since 2000 (was #769)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#809	Ellison	42,827	7,209
#810	Nielsen	42,773	7,218
#811	Gillespie	42,693	7,232
#812	Buck	42,639	7,241
#813	Middleton	42,578	7,251
#814	Sellers	42,577	7,251
#815	Leblanc	42,575	7,252

Who is named Bradshaw

Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

78% of people named Bradshaw identified as white (not Hispanic), 16% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 78%
Black (not Hispanic) 16%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.3%
Two or more races 2.2%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.6%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Famous Bradshaws

8 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

Terry Bradshaw
American football player and sports analyst (born 1948)
Tom Bradshaw
Association football player, born 1992
Sufe Bradshaw
American actress, born 1979
Tiny Bradshaw
American jazz and rhythm and blues bandleader, singer, composer, pianist, and drummer (190
Ahmad Bradshaw
American football player (born 1986)
Booker Bradshaw
American actor, 1940–2003
Gillian Bradshaw
American writer, born 1956
George Bradshaw
British cartographer, printer, and publisher (1801–1853)

Notable Bradshaws come mostly from the United States (6), the United Kingdom (1) and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1).

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Variant spellings

Brayshaw

Surnames that sound like Bradshaw

Bradshaw has the Soundex code B632, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B632.

Other English surnames

All 1,446 English surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Bradshaw come from?: From Old English brād + sceaga (“thicket”), equivalent to broad + shaw.
How common is the surname Bradshaw?: 42,465 people in the United States had the surname Bradshaw in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 7,271 Americans. It ranked 818th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Bradshaw?: In the 2010 Census, 78% of people named Bradshaw identified as white (not Hispanic), and 16% as Black (not Hispanic).
Who is the most famous person named Bradshaw?: Terry Bradshaw, American football player and sports analyst (born 1948), followed by Tom Bradshaw.
Where is the surname Bradshaw most common?: Wikidata records people named Bradshaw in the United States, the United Kingdom and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
What type of surname is Bradshaw?: Bradshaw is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
Is the surname Bradshaw getting more or less common?: More common. 40,794 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 42,465 in 2010, up 4.1%.
What are other spellings of Bradshaw?: Brayshaw.