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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from places in Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire, and Warwickshire named Broadwell, from Old English brād ‘broad’ + wella ‘spring’, ‘stream’, or a topographic name with the same meaning.

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