Family name origins & meanings
- Czech and Slovak (Brodský) : habitational name for someone from any of numerous places, notably in Bohemia, named Brod, from Slavic brod ‘ford’.
- Americanized spelling of Polish Brodzki, a habitational name for someone from the various places in Poland called Brody.
- Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) and Ukrainian : habitational name for someone from Brody, a place in Galicia (now Ukraine), which was an important center of Jewish life up to the time of Hitler