Bransford Family History

English (London): habitational name perhaps from Bransford (Worcestershire). The placename denoted a ford (Old English ford) leading to a hill-spur named Bragen perhaps from Old English brægen ‘brain crown of the head’ used as a transferred topographical term or from an undetermined pre-English element.

It is uncertain however that the medieval surname from this place survived into the modern period and the modern name may be a variant of Branford with an intrusive -s-.