The Bledsoe surname

In the 2010 U.S. Census, 18,510 people carried this name — #1,948 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 15,900 people counted. That is up 3% from 17,934 in 2000.

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In the first U.S. census, 1790

30 families named Bledsoe, or a close spelling, were counted in 1790.

Each family is counted by its head. About 159 people lived in those households, 5.3 to a family on average. The table counts it together with one other spelling. The table lists white heads of families only, in the twelve states whose 1790 records survive; Virginia’s figures come from state lists of 1782–1785.

Families, by state

North Carolina 16
Virginia 12
South Carolina 2

U.S. Census Bureau, «A Century of Population Growth from the First Census of the United States to the Twelfth, 1790–1900» (Washington, 1909), table 111, p. 230 — public domain · names carried by at least 100 white persons in 1790.

In print

Bledsoe in American newspapers,
1929.

Newspaper page from Evening Star carrying the name Bledsoe
Evening Star 1929-08-04
Newspaper page from The Washington Tribune carrying the name Bledsoe
The Washington Tribune 1929-03-16
Newspaper page from Evening Star carrying the name Bledsoe
Evening Star 1929-08-04

Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 57,410 pages in all carry the name.

In print

Bledsoe in Australian newspapers,
1870s–1950s.

72 articles name a Mr, Mrs or Miss Bledsoe. The most, 36, date from the 1950s.

Articles, by state

New South Wales 19
Queensland 18
Victoria 16
Western Australia 11
South Australia 4
ACT (Canberra) 3

Trove, National Library of Australia (trove.nla.gov.au) · articles in its digitised newspapers that name a Mr, Mrs or Miss Bledsoe.

Who carried it

People named Bledsoe,
with a public archive behind them.

  • Jesse Bledsoe
    Jesse Bledsoe 1776–1836 · judge
  • Albert Taylor Bledsoe
    Albert Taylor Bledsoe 1809–1877 · writer
  • Samuel T. Bledsoe
    Samuel T. Bledsoe 1868–1939
  • Jules Bledsoe
    Jules Bledsoe 1897–1943 · opera singer
  • Jules Bledsoe
    Jules Bledsoe 1898–1943 · opera singer
  • Anthony Bledsoe 1739–1788 · politician

Wikidata (CC0) · portraits via Wikimedia Commons, shown cropped, in the public domain or CC0 · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.

In the public record

People named Bledsoe,
in the records of the United States.

Soldiers, farmers, migrants and neighbours who carried the name and left a trace in public archives. Everyone shown here died long ago or was born more than a century ago.

United States933 records

933 records of the Bledsoe name in the United States
  • U.S. Army enlistment records, World War II 645
  • U.S. veterans' cemetery records, burials to 2001 257
  • U.S. alien registration index, 1940–1955 12
  • New York State death index (outside NYC), 1957–2001 11
  • New York City birth, marriage and death certificates 4
  • U.S. service members who died in the Vietnam War 3
  • Ramsey County (Minnesota) Memorial Hall, war dead 1
  1. A United States Selective Service registration card, 1942
    Example: U.S. registration card, 1942
    Military record Virgil L. Bledsoe

    Born 1915 in West Virginia. Enlisted 1942 at Huntington; miner from Logan County. U.S. Army veteran; died 1997, buried at Highland Memory Gardens, Chapmanville, West Virginia.

    U.S. National Archives, WWII Army Enlistment Records (public domain); U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0)
  2. Names engraved on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Washington, D.C.
    Example: U.S. war memorial
    War record Howard Tyrone Bledsoe

    Born 1951; from Chicago, Illinois. U.S. Marine Corps, machinegunner; died in an accident 1970 in Quang Nam, South Vietnam.

    U.S. National Archives, Defense Casualty Analysis System (public domain)
  3. A U.S. Army record of death and interment, Camp Nelson, Kentucky, 1864
    Example: U.S. burial record, 1864
    Burial record Gomer A. Bledsoe

    U.S. Army veteran of the Spanish–American War. Born 1878, died 1971; buried at Los Angeles National Cemetery, California.

    U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0)

Showing 3 of 933 records for Bledsoe in the United States.

Counts: U.S. National Archives, WWII Army Enlistment Records (public domain) · U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0) · U.S. National Archives, Flexoline Index Data File (public domain) · New York State Department of Health, Genealogical Research Death Index · NYC Department of Records & Information Services, Historical Vital Records (NYC Open Data) · U.S. National Archives, Defense Casualty Analysis System (public domain) · Ramsey County, Minnesota (public domain). Example pages, not the records of the people shown: U.S. Selective Service registration card, 1942 (public domain); Vietnam Veterans Memorial, photo by U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Michael J. Carden, 2009 (public domain); Record of death and interment, Camp Nelson, Kentucky, 1864, U.S. National Archives (public domain).

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