Updated June 9, 2019

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Family name origins & meanings

  • English (Yorkshire) : topographic name for someone who lived by a broad headland, i.e. a spur of a mountain, from Middle English brode ‘broad’ + heved ‘head’.
  • Americanized form of German Breithaupt or any of the cognates in other languages.
  • Captain Daniel Brodhead came to North America in 1664 as part of the force whose mission was to seize New York from the Dutch