The surname Brailsford
An English place surname, carried by 1,099 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex B642
Origin
English origin
From a variant of Old English byrġels (“burial place; barrow”) + ford (“ford”).
Brailsford 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 1,099 people named Brailsford in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 280,933 Americans. That is up 14% since 2000, when the Census counted 962.
Who is named Brailsford
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
52% of people named Brailsford identified as Black (not Hispanic), 44% as white (not Hispanic) and 2.2% as two or more races.
- Black (not Hispanic) 52%
- White (not Hispanic) 44%
- Two or more races 2.2%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.6%
Spellings and sound-alikes
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Variant spellings
- Brallisford
Surnames that sound like Brailsford
Brailsford has the Soundex code B642, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B642.
Other English surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname Brailsford come from?
- From a variant of Old English byrġels (“burial place; barrow”) + ford (“ford”).
- How common is the surname Brailsford?
- 1,099 people in the United States had the surname Brailsford in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 280,933 Americans. It ranked 23,205th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Brailsford?
- In the 2010 Census, 52% of people named Brailsford identified as Black (not Hispanic), and 44% as white (not Hispanic).
- What type of surname is Brailsford?
- Brailsford is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
- Is the surname Brailsford getting more or less common?
- More common. 962 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,099 in 2010, up 14%.
- What are other spellings of Brailsford?
- Brallisford.