Family name origins & meanings
- English : habitational name from any of various minor places called Broad(e)y, named with Old English brād ‘broad’ + (ge)hæg ‘enclosure’.
- English : habitational name from a place named as ‘broad island’, from Old English brād ‘broad’ + ēg ‘island’. There is a district of Stafford so named, on the western edge of the medieval town.