Brailsford
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English
Alternative forms
- (surname): Brallisford
Etymology
From a variant of Old English byrġels (“burial place; barrow”) + ford (“ford”).
Proper noun
Brailsford (countable and uncountable, plural Brailsfords)
- A village and civil parish in Derbyshire Dales district, Derbyshire, England (OS grid ref SK254414).
- A habitational surname from Old English.
Statistics
- According to the 2010 United States Census, Brailsford is the 23205th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 1099 individuals. Brailsford is most common among Black/African American (51.5%) and White (44.49%) individuals.
Further reading
- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Brailsford”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 214.