Bradford is a first name typically given to boys, but in rare cases also used as a girls name.
… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Bradford is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 4 out of 100,000 boys have been named Bradford. In the SmartGenius ranking, Bradford is #1,986 on the list of most common boys names. In the entire USA, approximately 26,541 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Bradford. That is 0.01 % of all living Americans.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter B is neither particularly common nor particularly rare as a first letter for boys' names: 4.2% of all common boys' names in the US begin with this letter. The most common first letters of boys' names are J and A, while X and U are the least common initials of boys' names.
With eight letters, the name Bradford is long compared to other names. In fact, 14.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly eight letters. 78% of all first names are shorter, while only 8% of all boys’ and girls’ names use nine letters or even more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long with no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
Thus, it follows that if 4.2% of all boys' names start with a B, this initial letter occurs about as often as all 26 letters on average. And maybe interesting to know: Brian is the boys’ name starting with B, which is the most common of all.
If your name is Bradford and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Bradford, you can simply say:
Butterfly
Rocket
Apple
Dinosaur
Fox
Orange
Rocket
Dinosaur
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Bradford
Bradford
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Bradford sounds like this: