Brady Family History
Brady Name Meaning
Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Brádaigh
‘descendant of Brádach’, a byname the meaning of which is
not clear. It is unlikely to be connected with Gaelic bradach
‘thieving’, ‘dishonest’, which has a short first vowel.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Brady Families
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United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Brady families
 1,179 - 2,356  394 - 1,178 |
 1 - 393  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Brady families
|
709 - 1,416 237 - 708 |
1 - 236 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Brady families
|
348 - 694 117 - 347 |
1 - 116 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Brady Family Origin
Brady Immigration Information
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Brady Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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