Family name origins & meanings
- English (Yorkshire) : topographic name for someone who lived by a broad headland, i.e. a spur of a mountain, from Middle English brode ‘broad’ + heved ‘head’.
- Americanized form of German Breithaupt or any of the cognates in other languages.
- Captain Daniel Brodhead came to North America in 1664 as part of the force whose mission was to seize New York from the Dutch