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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English (East Midlands) : habitational name from a place in Derbyshire named Brailsford, possibly from an Old English word brægels, a metathesized form of bærgels, itself a byform of byrgels ‘tumulus’, ‘barrow’, + ford ‘ford’.

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