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 brad
‘broad’ + ford ‘ford’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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