Last Name BRADLEY

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Meaning	Local: Of Bradley. Of course the local spots entitled the broad ley, i.e. broad meadow, would naturally be expected to be great. There are parishes, townships, tithings, hamlets, and chapelries of this name in counties Berks, Cheshire, Devon, Leicester, Hants, Worcester, Westm., Suffolk, Stafford, Somerset, Wilts, and West Rid. Yorks.

Origin	English, Jewish, Irish, Falkland, Maori, Belgian

Rank	200 (2000 US census)	181 (1990 US census)

Count	131,289 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that

71.21%, or 93491 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
24.39%, or 32021 total occurrences, as black,
0.4%, or 525 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
0.82%, or 1077 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
1.62%, or 2127 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
1.56%, or 2048 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.

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