Family name origins & meanings
- English : habitational name from a place in Cumbria named Brougham, from Old English burh ‘fortress’ + hām ‘homestead’. The pronunciation is ‘broo-um’.
- The type of four-wheeled horse-drawn carriage known as a brougham was named after Henry, Lord Brougham (1778–1868). He was descended from a certain Henry Brougham, who had bought the manor of Brougham in 1726.