Brailsford

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)

1. A village and civil parish in Derbyshire Dales district, Derbyshire, England (OS grid ref SK254414).
2. A habitational surname from Old English.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Brailsford is the 23205^th 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.