Bradman
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from a medieval nickname meaning ‘broad man’, from Old English brad + mann
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/bɹædmən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Bradman is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- United States (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 3 (measured from records)
no count published
Reference-verified
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from a medieval nickname meaning ‘broad man’, from Old English brad + mann
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bradman counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 105 | — | 3 |
| BB Barbados | — | 1 | — | — |
| GY Guyana | — | 1 | — | — |
| AU Australia | — | 1 | — | — |
| GB United Kingdom | — | listed | — | 1 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; the bb-ebc-voter-slices-2025 register; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present); the hanks-dictionary-surnames-1988 register. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Bradman is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, ‘broad man’; first attested William Bradman 1275 RH (Norfolk)
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In English, William Bradman 1275 RH (Nf), ‘Broad man’.
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In English, case, well built) + mann man. See also Broad. Var.: Braidman.
as a nameA dictionary of surnames
In English, case, well built) + rnann man. See also Broad.
as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Don Bradmanb. 1908AUAustralian cricketer (1908–2001)
- Tony Bradmanb. 1954GBBritish writer
- Greta Bradmanb. 1982AUAustralian operatic soprano
- Sam Bradmanb. 1990USAmerican lacrosse player
- Asa Bradmanresearcher
- Helen M. BradmanAUAustralian biologist
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 9 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 105 | #144,908 |
| GB United Kingdom | A Dictionary of Surnames (Hanks & Hodges, 1988) | — | — | — |
| GB United Kingdom | A Dictionary of English Surnames (Reaney & Wilson, 1991) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Bradman mean, and where does it come from?
- from a medieval nickname meaning ‘broad man’, from Old English brad + mann Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Bradman?
- A machine transcription gives /bɹædmən/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Bradman have the most bearers?
- Bradman is most frequently recorded in the United States.
What do you want to know about Bradman?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bradmanThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Bradman”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.