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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : topographic name for someone living by a notable broad oak, from Old English brād ‘broad’ + āc ‘oak’, or a habitational name from a minor place so named, such as Broad Oak in Symondsbury, Dorset. Braddock in Cornwall (Brodehoc in Domesday Book) may have this origin; the second element may however be Old English hōc ‘hook of land’, ‘hill spur’.

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