Boy name origins & meanings English : Broad ridgeGerman : Famous one Boy name variations Rick Brod Roderick Broddy Broderic Brodrik Brodrig Brodderrick Broderyk Brodrick Rodrick Rodrigo Roderich Rodrigue Rodney Rod Rodd Roddy Rodman Rodmond Rory Ricky Family name origins & meanings Irish : Anglicized form adopted as an equivalent of Gaelic Ó Bruadair ‘descendant of Bruadar’, a Norse personal name.Welsh : Anglicized form of Welsh ap Rhydderch ‘son of Rhydderch’ (see Prothero, Roderick). Famous people with this last name Matthew Broderick